Rails adding dashes to text field in db

rubyonrails-talk
1

are you calling debug() in your view anywhere? or to_yaml?

2

you can just tail your development log and watch it as you post the data to the server. that should indicate where the problem is coming from. if you see -- - in your params hash (posted data) then the problem is in your view. if it's not, then the problem is in your controller method

3

Unfortunately no. Unlike Smalltalk and many other languages, in Ruby Symbols are not strings.

The value in params[:note_body] was apparently a symbol not a string.

Michael