Display text with spaces in view in Rails

Hi,

I am using JRuby 1.5.0 and Rails 2.5.3.

I am posting a text( 400 characters ) through a textarea. Which is
getting saved in the postgres DB. When I am retriving the data and
displaying the same on the view the large spaces between the words are
getting trimpped to one single space.

EX.-> posted text :

Hi This forum is an interface to a mailing list.
Your email address.

In the Db(table) it is getting saved as it is posted(with large spaces
among words).

In view while displaying :

Hi This forum is an interface to a mailing list. Your email address

In view the code is as follows :

<%=auto_link((h test.name_text),:link => :urls,:html =>{:target =>
‘_blank’}) %>

Please Help!

Regards,