Judging from your code, the only thing that changes are the youtube path, and the dimensions. I recommend having a field in the database for each of those, and have the tags required to show it in the view. Then populate the width, height and src using erb tags in that view.

If you really need to save the html as is, I suggest converting the < > to < and > respectively, then when you output the textarea on the page, wrap it in your own method to replace those with the html tags. Put this in your application_helpers file:

https://gist.github.com/728563 Then in the view, simply call it:

Hi..

to convert string to xml

you can use REXML.

REXML - http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

like

temp_hash = Hash.new string_val = "MyTitlehello..How are you?? "

xml_val = REXML::Document.new string_val

xml_val.root.each do |doc| temp_hash[doc.name.to_s] = doc.text end

OUTPUT of temp_hash will be like :

temp_hash => {"title"=>"MyTitle", "description"=>"hello..How are you?? "}

I hope it will be helpful for you.

Good Luck ;)

-Ganesh K