title: How do I allow Multi-line content in a rails text_area field?
body: <p>How would I go about allowing users to input multi-line text in a <code>text_area</code> form field?</p>
  
  <p>Currently anytime content is entered in the <code>text area</code>the line breaks are removed... They are retained when I edit the content... So, maybe it's in the show view that the breaks are being removed?</p>
  
  <p>I've found a few things that indicate that I'd need to implement a WYSIWYG editor, but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> So, it looks like rails saves the content with line breaks, and I can add <code>.html_safe</code> to the field in the show view (i.e. <code>&lt;%= @post.post.html_safe %&gt;</code>). Now it will present content with basic html (e.g. <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;b&gt;</code>, etc...) but still doesn't present the line breaks in the content (i.e. when I press enter for a new line) that are saved by rails and I can view when I'm editing the content.</p>