# Escaping characters in a String

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/escaping-characters-in-a-string/129996>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 24, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/escaping-characters-in-a-string/129996 "2008-02-24T00:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/escaping-characters-in-a-string/129996/1 "2008-02-24T00:11:45Z")

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Hello,  
Part of my app is inputting stuff into a database, but I keep getting  
kicked errors because some entries have single quotes (’)… How can I  
escape these? Is there a string method that is similar to PHP’s  
‘addslashes’ and ‘stripslashes’?

Thanks!

- Jeff

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**Author:** ![sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sithadmin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sithadmin)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/escaping-characters-in-a-string/129996/2 "2008-02-24T00:26:06Z")

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Jeff M. wrote:

> Part of my app is inputting stuff into a database, but I keep getting  
> kicked errors because some entries have single quotes (’)… How can I  
> escape these? Is there a string method that is similar to PHP’s  
> ‘addslashes’ and ‘stripslashes’?

Have a look at the various sanitize\_sql\_xxx methods available in  
ActiveRecord…