Text Output Display in Rails is OUT OF CONTROL!

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I have a shell command statement in my controller that runs a ruby script and puts this text output into my instance variable which I call in my view.

Controller Code: <code> @data = `/usr/bin/ruby_script.rb` </code>

View Code: <code> <%= @data %> </code>

The problem is when @data has long strings of data, the don't wrap in my view so they go off page in the browser.

How can I force long strings contained in @data to word wrap in the browser? I tried putting them in a table but that didn't help.

Thanks

jackster

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I have a shell command statement in my controller that runs a ruby script and puts this text output into my instance variable which I call in my view.

View Code: <code> <%= @data %> </code>

So are you really using the CODE tag? Regardless,

The problem is when @data has long strings of data, the don't wrap in my view so they go off page in the browser.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-white-space

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"So are you really using the CODE tag? Regardless,"

Thanks Hassan,

No I'm not using these tags, I used them for the purposes of the forum (which didn't help)....sorry about that confusion.

The link to that document looks like exactly what I need....it appears that I need to do this in my CSS file?

thanks

jackster

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No I'm not using these tags, I used them for the purposes of the forum (which didn't help)....sorry about that confusion.

NP. The typical browser default for CODE tags is preformatted (white space is significant and retained exactly). Anyway,

The link to that document looks like exactly what I need....it appears that I need to do this in my CSS file?

Yes, apply the appropriate white-space setting to the selector for the container (div, p, whatever) holding that content.

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Yes, apply the appropriate white-space setting to the selector for the container (div, p, whatever) holding that content.

What about the fact that it's in a table, should I put the div tags outside that?

thanks for the help

jackster

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No, try applying the style directly to the container it's in, so if that's a TD of a table, use that.