diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/CodegenConfig.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/CodegenConfig.java
index fef5d1f510a..e8bb770fba6 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/CodegenConfig.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/CodegenConfig.java
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ public interface CodegenConfig {
 
     String escapeText(String text);
 
+    String escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines(String text);
+
     String escapeUnsafeCharacters(String input);
 
     String escapeReservedWord(String name);
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
index c4ef8f114af..94183f154c5 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegen.java
@@ -414,6 +414,31 @@ public class DefaultCodegen implements CodegenConfig {
                         .replace("\"", "\\\""));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Escape characters while allowing new lines
+     *
+     * @param input String to be escaped
+     * @return escaped string
+     */
+    public String escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines(String input) {
+        if (input == null) {
+            return input;
+        }
+
+        // remove \t
+        // replace \ with \\
+        // replace " with \"
+        // outter unescape to retain the original multi-byte characters
+        // finally escalate characters avoiding code injection
+        return escapeUnsafeCharacters(
+                StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava(
+                        StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(input)
+                                .replace("\\/", "/"))
+                        .replaceAll("[\\t]", " ")
+                        .replace("\\", "\\\\")
+                        .replace("\"", "\\\""));
+    }
+
     /**
      * override with any special text escaping logic to handle unsafe
      * characters so as to avoid code injection
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
index 361f9c41cb2..4ddf0d86649 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
@@ -216,9 +216,11 @@ public class DefaultGenerator extends AbstractGenerator implements Generator {
             // set a default description if none if provided
             config.additionalProperties().put("appDescription",
                     "No description provided (generated by Openapi Generator https://github.com/openapitools/openapi-generator)");
+            config.additionalProperties().put("appDescriptionWithNewLines", config.additionalProperties().get("appDescription"));
             config.additionalProperties().put("unescapedAppDescription", "No description provided (generated by Openapi Generator https://github.com/openapitools/openapi-generator)");
         } else {
             config.additionalProperties().put("appDescription", config.escapeText(info.getDescription()));
+            config.additionalProperties().put("appDescriptionWithNewLines", config.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines(info.getDescription()));
             config.additionalProperties().put("unescapedAppDescription", info.getDescription());
         }
 
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/ruby/README.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/ruby/README.mustache
index 42e0f170ccf..8703af147ad 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/ruby/README.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/ruby/README.mustache
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 {{moduleName}} - the Ruby gem for the {{appName}}
 
-{{#appDescription}}
-{{{appDescription}}}
-{{/appDescription}}
+{{#appDescriptionWithNewLines}}
+{{{appDescriptionWithNewLines}}}
+{{/appDescriptionWithNewLines}}
 
 This SDK is automatically generated by the [OpenAPI Generator](https://openapi-generator.tech) project:
 
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegenTest.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegenTest.java
index 65948656314..7c866dab664 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegenTest.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/DefaultCodegenTest.java
@@ -235,6 +235,33 @@ public class DefaultCodegenTest {
         Assert.assertNotNull(type);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testEscapeText() {
+        final DefaultCodegen codegen = new DefaultCodegen();
+
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\n"), " ");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\r"), " ");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\t"), " ");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\\"), "\\\\");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\""), "\\\"");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeText("\\/"), "/");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testEscapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines() {
+        final DefaultCodegen codegen = new DefaultCodegen();
+
+        // allow new lines
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\n"), "\n");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\r"), "\r");
+
+        // escape other special characters
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\t"), " ");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\\"), "\\\\");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\""), "\\\"");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.escapeTextWhileAllowingNewLines("\\/"), "/");
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void updateCodegenPropertyEnum() {
         final DefaultCodegen codegen = new DefaultCodegen();