how to remove loads of white space / new lines from in text body of email from rails 3 mail?

Question

I have an email that i display the text_body to my users within my rails 3 application.

Problem is the text_body comes in with loads of white space between lines / paragraphs and when i display it with simple_format to show formatted text it has loads of
in.

Does anyone know how to remove this to make the email look like it should ie formatted properly on the page in browser ?

thanks a lot Rick

Answer 1

This is quite fast

text.squeeze(" \t")

It leaves at most one adjacent space and/or tab anywhere in the text.