How to output text containing html markup without having the browser render the html

Rails
1

I have an object attribute that constantly gets html inserted into it.
This becomes problematic when I want to output that attribute to the
browser. What I’d like to do is have the < and > converted to < and
>. Is there a snippet or plugin I can use to do this?

2

I have an object attribute that constantly gets html inserted into it.
This becomes problematic when I want to output that attribute to the
browser. What I’d like to do is have the < and > converted to < and
>. Is there a snippet or plugin I can use to do this?

Assuming your attribute is say @html_string…

<%= h @html_string %>

-philip

3

You mean like the view helper h(), as in <%=h my_attr %>?

4

Exactly. Thank you.