From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-22T16:04:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby GSUB question

From: Binh Ly [mailto:binh@pigbaby.net] 
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# How would I go about replacing the single quotes ', with a 
# backslash and
# single quote? \'

you can try harder ;)

puts "c'mon, it's cool!".gsub("'","\\\\'")
c\'mon, it\'s cool!
#=> nil

or simply just,

puts "c'mon, it's cool!".gsub("'"){"\\'"}
c\'mon, it\'s cool!