Returning html string from Rails method

Question

I'm trying to build a formatted html string using a rails helper method, which lives in application_helper.rb.

def comment_posted_tag(actor_id,date)
  ... irrelevant code removed
  str =  "<b>" + actor_name + "</b>" + " on " + date.strftime("%d %b %Y at %H:%M")
  return str.html_safe
end

I'm calling it like this in the view:

<%= comment_posted_tag(dialog_comment.actor_id,dialog_comment.updated_at) %>

For some reason the tags are not coming through. Ideally I'd like to attached a css class to the actor_name string. I've tried it with and without the html_safe but neither work.

MurifoX · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-21 13:26:28Z

3

Always use content_tag for this kind of job:

def comment_posted_tag(actor_name, date)
  content_tag(:span, :class => 'yours') do
    content_tag(:b, actor_name) + ' on ' + date.strftime("%d %b %Y at %H:%M")
  end
end

answered Nov 21, 2012 at 13:26

MurifoX

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