Comments on: Escaping single quotes in Ruby harder than expected

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:41:24 +0000

Cool. Thanks!

By: Elvi B

Elvi B — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:56:46 +0000

amazing! Thanks so much for the explanation. This was a crazy one to track down.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:07:28 +0000

Argh!!! Thank you!!

By: ras

ras — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:46:42 +0000

awwwwwwwww

Scanned this 2 hours ago and thought: nice, a solution in the beginning of the post.

Now I see it’s actually the problem. :s

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:01:14 +0000

Hello,

thanks very much for the post – I was driving myself mad with this trying to work out why my efforts to escape single quotes weren’t working. Now it works nicely.

As an aside, it turns out that in Rails (which is where I’m coding this) there’s an “escape_javascript” function which does it for you, although I might leave the gsub line in instead to remind me how annoying it was to get it working…

Cheers
Dave