From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T06:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert characters from hex to string

On 2/29/08, Shandy Nantz <shandybleu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Florian Gilcher wrote:
>  > On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Shandy Nantz wrote:
>  >
>
> >>> in the view. How is the variable used in the view?  As an argument to
>  >>
>  >>
>
> > You are abusing link_to. The syntax for linking to a pregenerated
>  > location is:
>  >
>  > <%= link_to 'Trave', @link, #the other arguments %>
>  >
>  > Otherwise, you generate a route within you controller with @link
>  > as :action parameter.
>  > And parameters will (and have to) be escaped by link generation.
>  >
>  > This is really much more of a question for the rails mailing list.
>  >
>  > Greetins
>  > Florian Gilcher
>
>
> I know this has turned out to be a rails like question but the original
>  question is rooted within the realm of ruby. So far I have tried
>  CGI.unespace and h method to try and rid a string of characters that
>  started out as characters but were then converted to hex characters.

The h method (which is an alias for html_escape) does just the
opposite.  What I was driving at in my response is that somewhere in
your view code you were doing something like using h which was ADDING
the hex characters.

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