Ruby .gsub how to shorten a line of code that makes similar substitutions

I have a line of Ruby code that looks something like this:

words = params[:words].gsub("\n","").gsub("\s","")

Is there a better way to do this since the code takes all spaces and newlines and gets rid of them? Just curious if there is a better or shorter way, in the case that I'm being too repetitive in my code.

The above code does work for me, but I'm new to programming and want to do things the better/more aesthetic way if p开发者_如何学Cossible.

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actually, using only \s to match any whitespace character should work:

"some\n simple  demo \nstring \n".gsub(/\s/, "")  # => "somesimpledemostring"

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words = params[:words].delete("\s\n")