I am trying to decode some HTML entities ('<' => '<'). I have found an old gem (http://github.com/tma/html_helpers/) but it seems to have been abandoned twice.
Any recommendations? (will need to use it in a model)
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A:
To encode the characters, you can use CGI.escapeHTML
string = CGI.escapeHTML('test "escaping" <characters>')
To decode them, there is the CGI.unescapeHTML
CGI.unescapeHTML("test "unescaping" <characters>")
Of course, you need, before that, to include the cgi library.
require 'cgi'
And if you're in Rails, you don't need to use CGI to encode the string. There's the h method.
<%= h 'escaping <html>' %>
Damien MATHIEU
2009-10-21 12:46:50
I tried this approach first but it does not turn entities like " " into " ".I guess I should specify that I get the html from a bunch of different sites and need to save it as plain text in the database.
vrinek
2009-10-26 12:59:44