Thanks! That worked perfectly!!

-joe

On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:54:28 PM UTC-7, jmcguckin wrote:
>
> Rather than setting the <meta name="description" contents="xyzzy"> tag in 
> every webpage of my site, I decided to be clever and set a variable in each 
> controller with the text and
> do:
>
>     <meta name="description" contents=<%= @desc %> /> 
>
> on the layout instead. The problem is that the generated text has a no 
> quotes:
>
>     <meta name="description" contents=FOO BAR/> 
>
> is what I end up with.
>
> I've tried every variant of surrounding the text with quotes or using 
> variable interpolation in strings to try to make this work.
>
> Either I end up with no text passed into the layout, or I get 
>
>     <meta name="description" contents=&quotFOO BAR&quot/> 
>
> Which may actually be correct, but just looks odd.
>
> I've actually decided to add the meta tag the old fashioned way, but now 
> I'm curious as to why I can't make this work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>

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