How to replace mail_to in Rails 3?

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I have just started up grading to Rails 3. mail_to no longer works, you just get a lot of garbage. With what do I replace it?

Thanks

Paul Thompson

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"Paul Jonathan Thompson" <rails001@gmail.com> wrote in message news:h2p603755611004142229h2d4f7013pde4320967c722e0e@mail.gmail.com...

I have just started up grading to Rails 3. mail_to no longer works, you just get a lot of garbage. With what do I replace it?

The mail_to helper is still present in edge Rails, so I'm not sure what is going wrong. Can you provide an example of your invocation, and what it is outputting?

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Hi,

I am using Rails 3 Beta 3. The code is:

<%= mail_to(supplier.email, h(supplier.email), :subject => "Bathroom Direct Order:", :encode => "javascript") %>

This has worked fine up till Rails 2.3.5. Below is what now appears in the view:

<script type="text/javascript">eval(decodeURIComponent('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%70%6f%72%69%72%75%61%40%61%64%76%61%6e%63%65%65%6c%65%63%74%72%69%63%61%6c%2e%63%6f%2e%6e%7a%3f%73%75%62%6a%65%63%74%3d%42%61%74%68%72%6f%6f%6d%25%32%30%44%69%72%65%63%74%25%32%30%4f%72%64%65%72%25%33%41%22%3e%70%6f%72%69%72%75%61%40%61%64%76%61%6e%63%65%65%6c%65%63%74%72%69%63%61%6c%2e%63%6f%2e%6e%7a%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))</script>

Guidance will be most welcome.

Regards,

Paul

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Isn't that rails obfuscating the mailto link so that parsers cannot harvest email addresses so easily? Does the mailto link work if you follow it?

HTH

Matt

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Hey Paul,

That javascript looks correct. mail_to should return an html_safe string. Escaped html indicates it isn't.

So if the problem is that the html is being escaped, then this is a bug. file a ticket on the rails lighthouse.

To get around the bug, use <%=raw mail_to(...) %> or <%= mail_to(...).html_safe %>

Regards Kieran

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Hi Kieran,

Thanks for that. The raw option worked. I will file a ticket on the rails lighthouse.