Trouble with titleize

rubyonrails-talk
#1

In one of my views I have this code:

  <%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
    <%=yield(:page_title).html_safe?-%>
    <%=yield(:page_title).titleize-%>
  <%- end -%>

Which displays:

true A Boy &Amp; His Dog

However this code:

  <%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
    <%=yield(:page_title).html_safe?-%>
    <%=yield(:page_title).capitalize-%>
  <%- end -%>

displays:

true A boy & his dog

Is this behaviour of titleize intentional? I want to titleize 'a dog &
his boy' and preserve the & character in the final display.

#2

In one of my views I have this code:

<%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
   <%=yield(:page_title).html_safe?-%>
   <%=yield(:page_title).titleize-%>
<%- end -%>

What exactly does yield(:page_title) return before you titleize it?

Fred

#3

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #986019:

In one of my views I have this code:

<%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
   <%=yield(:page_title).html_safe?-%>
   <%=yield(:page_title).titleize-%>
<%- end -%>

What exactly does yield(:page_title) return before you titleize it?

Fred

  <%-content_for :page_title,
     "a boy & his dog"
  -%>

<div class="welcome" id="welcome_show_page">

  <%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
    <%=yield(:page_title)-%>
  <%- end -%>

displays:

a boy & his dog

#4

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #986019:

In one of my views I have this code:

<%=content_tag :h2, :header do-%>
  <%=yield(:page_title).html_safe?-%>
  <%=yield(:page_title).titleize-%>
<%- end -%>

What exactly does yield(:page_title) return before you titleize it?

Fred

<%-content_for :page_title,
    "a boy & his dog"
-%>

So the issue would seem to be that content_for is escaping the & (turning it into &amp), and then titleize, not knowing any better uppercases the &amp to &Amp. Character entities are case sensitive so this screws things up. Why not call titleize in the content_for block?

#5

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #986030:

So the issue would seem to be that content_for is escaping the &
(turning it into &amp), and then titleize, not knowing any better
uppercases the &amp to &Amp. Character entities are case sensitive so
this screws things up. Why not call titleize in the content_for block?

Thank you Fred. Yes, that works. I did not think to do that because
our practice is to apply styling methods at the moment of display. On
this page I can change that without difficulty but on others, as the
text is sometimes used in multiple places on a page, I may not be so
fortunate as in this example.