Suppress HTML escaping in link_to(:title)?

Rails
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Hi guys,

I’m new to this list and it seems you are my last hope.

How can I prevent Rails from automatically escaping HTML entities when
creating a hyperlink?

You know, link_to( … :title => ‘This is „quoted“’) returns
‘This is „quoted“’ because Rails escapes the ampersands to
&.

Is there a way I can stop/alter this behaviour so I can use these
numeric references in my title tag?

Kind regards

.mitro

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2006/1/20, Trojanek Michael M. [email protected]:

Is there a way I can stop/alter this behaviour so I can use these
numeric references in my title tag?

I think the easiest way would be to write out the link by hand, using
url_for instead of link_to.

Something like: <a href=<%= url_for … %> title=“<%=@title%>” />

Though I think you have a bug somewhere else. Why do you have escaped
HTML stored as data? Are you escaping input? (a bad idea)

The only reason I can think of at the moment to store escaped HTML
would be as a caching thing, perhaps you could use the built in Rails
caching?

Douglas