Ruby on Rails: how to render a string as HTML?
- by Tim
I have
@str = "<b>Hi</b>"
and in my erb view:
<%= @str >
What will display on the page is: <b>Hi</b> when what I really want is Hi. What's the ruby way to "interpret" a string as HTML markup?
Edit: the case where
@str = "<span class=\"classname\">hello</span>"
If in my view I do
<%raw @str %>
The HTML source code is <span class=\"classname\">hello</span where what I really want is <span class="classname">hello</span> (without the backslashes that were escaping the double quotes). What's the best way to "unescape" those double quotes?
