Hi Amy, On May 6, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Amy L wrote:
> After digging around: I think, yes, escaped ones should work but apparently > weird things seem to happen with Rails---it turns out to not be a Haml issue. > e.g. passing to a Rails app: > > > http://myhost.com/somecontroller/someaction?param1=key1¶m2=key2¶m3=key3 > > I get keys: > > param1=key1 > param2=key2 > param3=key3 > > Awesome. However > > > http://myhost.com/somecontroller/someaction?param1=key1&param2=key2&param3=key3 > > results in: > > amp= > param1=key1 > param2=key2 > param3=key3 Putting escaped ampersands in, e.g., the URL you put in a browser's address bar will give you this result. However, if you have escaped ampersands in URLs in, e.g., the form action attribute in your HTML, the browser will (or should) take care of unescaping them. Rhett > > And, back to the original problem I was having, I found the answer in the > documentation....and it's not Haml either. It turns out that url_for() in > ActionController::Base is different than url_for() in > ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper. The latter escapes ampersands. To make it > *not* escape them you have to pass an additional param: > > :escape => false > > (The example code I had posted was also erroneous. I was reading wrong output > from some page source. Both the ERb and Haml views did generate the escaped > &.) > > -- Amy > > > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > Unescaped ampersands are never valid in HTML properties. Escaped ones should > work just as well, and do conform to the spec. > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Amy L <[email protected]> wrote: > Gah. The first example should have read: > > <a href="<%= url_for(:controller => 'somecontroller', :action => > 'someaction', :foo => 'bar', :moo => 'cow') %>">Click me</a> > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Amy L <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > I'm using Rails 2.3.5. And when I write into an ERb template: > > <a href="url_for(:controller => 'somecontroller', :action => > 'someaction', :foo => 'bar', :moo => 'cow')">Click me</a> > ... > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Haml" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Haml" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/haml?hl=en.
