Not escaping arguments passed on to view helpers

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I have a json formatted arg that I pass to a view helper, but the HTML gets escaped. I need it not to. I'm on Rails 2.3.6=8, I've tried using rails_xss and using raw and html_safe but it doesn't make a difference. How do I not escape the argument? See http://gist.github.com/613780 for more details.

Thanks! Ramon Tayag

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I have a json formatted arg that I pass to a view helper, but the HTML gets escaped. I need it not to. I'm on Rails 2.3.6=8, I've tried using rails_xss and using raw and html_safe but it doesn't make a difference. How do I not escape the argument? Seehttp://gist.github.com/613780for more details.

I think the html safe mostly worries about < and > and so on. Looking at your example it looks like the correct thing is happening - if those quotes marks weren't escaped you'd have

<textarea cols="50" data-bespinoptions="{ "syntax": "js" }"

which isn't right.

Fred

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Yes, that wouldn’t be, but how about: