How can I get rails to not render escaped quotes as \"

Question

In my layout I have

<% @current_user.popups.each do |p| %>
  <% content_for :script do %>
    <%= "$(document).ready ( function() { $.jGrowl(\"#{p.message}\", { sticky: true }) });" %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

And then in the script section I have

<%= yield :script %>

The problem is that this renders the escaped quotes as \" and javascript doesn't like this.

How can I stop this from happening? Or is there another approach to this? I can't use single quotes because I'd like to have some html in the message. I'd appreciate any help.

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '10 at 23:03

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Are you using Rails 3? In Rails 3 html escaping is done by default and you must bypass it each time like the following: jdl had the right idea above, but it sounds like you still have issues.

<% content_for :script do %>
  $(document).ready ( function() { $.jGrowl("<%= raw(p.message) %>", { sticky: true }) });
<% end %>

But even better would be to run it through the helper provided by rails: escape_javascript so escape carriage returns and quotes

like this:

$(document).ready ( function() { $.jGrowl("<%= raw(escape_javascript(p.message)) %>", { sticky: true }) });

answered May 17 '10 at 23:03

Daniel Beardsley

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If jdl's answer works fine, I'd still recommend using the escape_javascript helper to escape quotes and new-lines – Daniel Beardsley May 17 '10 at 23:05
Thank you I needed to do this to put html in the message. – James May 17 '10 at 23:14
I like this answer better so I deleted mine. – jdl May 17 '10 at 23:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '14 at 20:50

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try adding .html_safe to your string in the view.

<%= "$(document).ready ( function() { $.jGrowl(\"#{p.message.html_safe}\", { sticky: true }) });" %>

answered Apr 02 '14 at 20:50

Eskim0

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How can I get rails to not render escaped quotes as \"

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