html.erb doesn't recognize html tags?

New to RoR, so please don't kill me ;)

Was wondering why does not Rails 3 recognize HTML tags retrieved from dat开发者_开发知识库abase?

For example,

         Name   Content                     
         Title  <b>Great</b>    Show    Edit    Destroy

I wanted to have Content to be bold and put < b > tag around it, when it retrieves from a database it looks like a plain English.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.

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If I got this right, you need to do this:

<%= myrecord.content.html_safe %>

to get "real" html and not just escaped html code.

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Even though it is unsafe to deliberately output HTML from the DB, you should call raw on the content you're trying to print.

<%= raw @object.my_content %>