In a view I emit a 12 character string "abc<br />def".
In 2.3.8 "abc<br />def" is rendered.
In 3.1.1 "abc\<br /\>def" is rendered.
The 2.3.8 behavior is what I want. How do I get it?
Ralph Shnelvar
I'm answering my own question.
This is an issue with HAML. The relevant statement comes from http://haml-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.HAML_REFERENCE.html
- - - Haml supports Rails’ XSS protection scheme, which was introduced in Rails 2.3.5+ and is enabled by default in 3.0.0+. If it’s enabled, Haml’s :escape_html option is set to true by default - like in ERB, all strings printed to a Haml template are escaped by default. Also like ERB, strings marked as HTML safe are not escaped. Haml also has its own syntax for printing a raw string to the template. - - -
In the document cited above, there are hyperlinks to how to turn escapin on and off.
Bascially, the leading = in a HAML statement needs to be cahntged to a != in order to turn off escaping.
Just another gotcha in the struggle to upgrade from 2.3.8 to 3.1.1.