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html_escape

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html_escape(s) private

A utility method for escaping HTML tag characters. This method is also aliased as h.

In your ERB templates, use this method to escape any unsafe content. For example:

<%=h @person.name %>

Example:

puts html_escape("is a > 0 & a < 10?")
# => is a > 0 & a < 10?

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb, line 20
      def html_escape(s)
        s = s.to_s
        if s.html_safe?
          s
        else
          s.encode(s.encoding, :xml => :attr)[1...-1].html_safe
        end
      end

August 23, 2011

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the correct return value of html_escape in example above

the correct return is:

# => is a > 0 & a < 10?

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the correct return value of html_escape in example above