You could count the number of lines like this:

lines = filed_name.split("\n").size

If I'm understanding what you are asking about.

Carl

On Jul 27, 12:54 pm, Fabian <[email protected]> wrote:
> talking about text fields....
> I have a text area of 30 columns in my html viewer of a text field
> It works fine, for all CRUD operations. The only detail is about te text 
> don,t include any controls ("\n" or "\l\n") for the lines was auto-breaked 
> into the text area of the form.
> I want to count the number of lines of this text area, but my code fails 
> because I am counting "\n" marks.
> I know this looks like an "HTML" issue (not Rails) but all suggestions will 
> be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> FF
> Robert Walker escribió:Frederick Cheung wrote:On Jul 27, 1:46 pm, 
> Ritvvij<[email protected]>wrote:yes... text area to write the article and 
> then save the whole article in DBYou didn't quite understand me. The column 
> type you want (at least in mysql, sqlite3, postgresql etc) is called text 
> FredAlso, as I understand it the migration t.text (or t.column :text) will 
> map to an appropriate column type for the database being used (i.e. for 
> Oracle the column would be clob).
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