In the "Head First Rails" book, it mentions that "h" in <%=h...%> is a helper method.
Can someone describe what that means? And, when should I use <%=h...%>? Is it when I want the result to be displayed on my view for example?
h is short for html_escape. You're probably end up using it nearly every time you display user entered data (or you may be at the risk of xss attacks). From rails 2.3.8 there's a different way of handling this - strings have a notion of whether they are safe or not
Fred