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Escape Single Quotes In Ruby Strings

11.09.2005
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class String
  def escape_single_quotes
    self.gsub(/[']/, '\\\\\'')
  end
end


Useful if you ever get the idea of shoving Ruby strings into JavaScript code.

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Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2008/12/11 - 11:21pm

Or just: class String def escape_single_quotes self.gsub(/'/, "\\\\'") end end

Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:16pm

In rails you have escape_javascript() http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/JavaScriptHelper.html#M000440
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