how to make rails parse <p>, <b>, <strong> entered in text area?

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Hello, I have this simple blog Post, I just want to jazz it up a bit with paragraphs, and bold faces, thought that wasn't too much to ask for. But when I enter the following in the text area

    <strong>You won't believe this!!</strong>

and save submit it, and then display it in the show action, wherein I use

<%= @article.body %>

it displays exactly the same

    <strong>You won't believe this!!</strong>

I know about the "h" method and take care not to include it. -- I haven't done anything else with the app, I just generated the app and rake db:migrate'd it and nothing else. So it is a clean start. now, can anyone hint me what I might need to do in addition to not include the "h" as in <%=h ... %> so to display html <strong> and etc?

Thanks!!~~

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What version of Rails are you using? I seem to remember discussion of auto-escaping by default in v3, but to my knowledge and testing this is not the case as of 2.3.4.

Check to make sure that your data is not html-escaped in the database.

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Hi Jemminger, I am using 2.3.2

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oh yes and the database is mysql that comes with instantrails 2.0