Dynamically generating selector, hyphen problem

rubyonrails-talk
1

Rails 3.1.3

I would like to generate something like this.

<div class="alert">   <a class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a>   Successful! </div>

I tried,

content_tag :div, msg, :class => "alert alert-success" do         content_tag :a, "x", :class => "close", :data-dismiss => "alert" end

But the problem is the hyphen, "-", where ":data-dismiss =>..." Do you think we can avoid this problem?

soichi

2

Have you tried “data-dismiss”.to_sym?

3

Rails 3.1.3

I would like to generate something like this.

<div class="alert"> <a class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a> Successful! </div>

I tried,

content_tag :div, msg, :class => "alert alert-success" do        content_tag :a, "x", :class => "close", :data-dismiss => "alert" end

But the problem is the hyphen, "-", where ":data-dismiss =>..." Do you think we can avoid this problem?

You can either use a bare string ('data-dismiss' => "alert") or you can use quotes in the symbol name (:"data-dismiss" => "alert").

Walter

4

A bare string works!

Thanks, everyone!

soichi