[merb] HTML entity conversion in textarea ?!?

[Rich Morin]

I have some text that contains both HTML markup (eg, "<...")
and HTML entities (eg, "&lt;...").  The entities pass through
display OK, but show up in the textarea converted to markup
characters.

Here's the edit() method:

  def edit(id)
    puts '=====>> edit' #T
    save_message(message)

    only_provides :html
    @page  = Page.by_p_uuidc(:key => id)[0]
    raise NotFound unless @page
    STDERR.puts "@page.p_text...@page.p_text}" #T
    @title = @page.p_title
    foo = display @page
    STDERR.puts "foo=#{foo}" #T
    foo
  end

Here's the relevant view code:

    <p><%= text_area(@page.p_text,
                     :name  => :text,
                     :cols  => 80,
                     :rows  => 40) %></p>

Here's the relevant trace output:

  ...
  <b>Note:</b>
  If it looks like
  "&lt;% ... %&gt;",        "&lt;%= ... %&gt;",
  "&#091;% ... %&#093;", or "&#091;%= ... %&#093;",
  you've run into eRuby (Embedded Ruby) markup.
  ...

Here's what shows up in the edit page's textarea:

  ...
  <b>Note:</b>
  If it looks like
  "<% ... %>",        "<%= ... %>",
  "[% ... %]", or "[%= ... %]",
  you've run into eRuby (Embedded Ruby) markup.
  ...

Comments and suggestions welcome...

-r
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