My `Song` model has a `lyrics` text attribute. Since new lines are `\n`-separated in my lyrics, I often find myself doing this in my views to make the lyrics HTML-friendly:

```
@song.lyrics.strip.gsub(/\n/, "\n<br />")

```

I'm repeating the `gsub` logic all over my application, and, worse still, I can't change the format in which I store my lyrics without touching everywhere I tried printing them as HTML.

I'd like to abstract this so that I can write this in my views:

```
@song.lyrics.to_html

```

So that the `strip.gsub(/\n/, "\n<br />")` logic is present in only one place in my application (in the `to_html` method).

What's the best way to do this?