RoR: How to get an empty/new line in a plain text email

Question

I'm trying to get an empty line in a plain text email. I've tried with \n\n and with \r\n but in both cases, these characters are just displayed as normal text, instead of an empty line.

What am I doing wrong?

(I'm viewing a multipart email in plain text view in Mozilla Thunderbird.)

Thank you for any help! Tom

Answer 1

In Ruby you have two sets of quoting rules, one for single quotes and the %q construct, and another for double quotes and %Q. Single quoting strings treats escape sequences as string literals and prints them as such. Double quoting a string will cause Ruby to process the escape sequences and insert the correct substitutions.