>From a lengthy discussion on #rubyonra...@freenode.net, I am wondering about something. The *_path and *_url methods return plain String objects, not an ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer. If something is passed into (say) link_to that contains an escapable character, such as & in a query string, link_to will escape it.
I haven't encountered people putting .html_safe on *_path methods before, so I didn't know about this. Is this something well-known? Is it expected? My assumption was that it would have been html_safe. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Example: >> app.glucose_readings_path(:hello => true, :goodbye=> false) => "/glucose_readings?goodbye=false&hello=true" >> app.glucose_readings_path(:hello => true, :goodbye=> false).class => String < Object >> foo.link_to "hi", app.glucose_readings_path(:hello => true, :goodbye=> false) => "<a href=\"/glucose_readings?goodbye=false&hello=true\">hi</a>" >> foo.link_to "hi", app.glucose_readings_path(:hello => true, :goodbye=> false).html_safe => "<a href=\"/glucose_readings?goodbye=false&hello=true\">hi</a>" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHUC_t9kcbh-3ZL7c9SSZx_XGM665UrUsi6CiFKe3rVG7dxvKA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
