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I am trying to use the html_safe? method to check if a string/text which is retrieved from the DB contains any HTML. However, the html_safe? method is not returning the value I expected. Let's look at the following examples: 

>> 'this is a string'.html_safe?
false

>> '<strong>this is a string</strong>'.html_safe?
false

I would expect the first invocation of html_safe? to return true, and the second invocation to return false. The results on the Rails console return false on both of the invocations...

Am I misunderstanding the purpose of html_safe? or there is a better way of doing what I want to achieve?

Phrancis
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After more digging, the html_safe? method only return a boolean value that to indicate whether or not the type/object itself is html safe.

Therefore, it doesn't really matter what the contents are within a string, the html_safe? method would also return false for String type.

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