Hosted at GitHub since May 1, 2008 http://github.com/ryanlowe/easy_format Was hosted at RubyForge http://rubyforge.org/projects/simple-format/ = easy_format easy_format is a Ruby on Rails plugin that formats and escapes database text for HTML views. The result looks a lot like text in Gmail: line breaks are converted and HTTP links are linked up. It will not support tags like BBCode; it just formats plain text. == Installation gem install ryanlowe-easy_format --source http://gems.github.com/ == Usage <%= EasyFormat.format(@post.body) %> Note: HTML brackets are escaped by format() so you do not need to use h() as well.