Rails 3 + html_safe, raw

Question

html_safe and raw works good inside Viwe, but it dosent work inside action inside controller

a = "<p> sample text </p>"

Inside view <%=a.html_safe%>
give output "Sample text"

Inside controller

def test 

   a = "<p> sample text </p>" 
   a.html_safe 

end

this returns the as it is "<p> sample text </p>"

please guide me how to make this html_safe work inside controller action....

Answer 1

I guess you should simply do:

def test 
  @a = "<p> sample text </p>".html_safe 
end

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Just tried myself, and it works properly. In my view I have

<%= @a %>