Fjan

Just a quick follow up to myself, I looked at the code and all that is needed to make "<%== ..." behave as "<%= raw ..." is this snippet in an initializer:

mod...

I just wanted to point out that the it's not just URLs and not just ampersands: any text gets HTML escaped. This is going to trip people up who accidentally use...

Emitting HTML character entities like hellip and nbsp is a bad idea since you will no longer be able to use the rails helpers to generate plain text messages. I...

I just tried it on Rails 3 and this appears to be no longer a problem (it sets a "charset:UTF-8" on attachments by default now). Can be marked fixed as far as I...

great :-)

Well, I fixed everything by now. I actually amended the test helper to find all of them and it found a few more I hadn't caught before. It's a simple ...

Yes, it is consistent, however it is also a bug since it is consistently different from Rails versions < 2.3.8 and therefore it breaks a lot of apps which is no...

If the first part of a string is a rails helper the rest of the string gets HTML escaped:

h('test')+'<br/>' # => wrong: test&lt;br&gt;
''+h('test')+'<br/>' # =...

I guess the reason the SGML spec absorbs the first newline is so that handwritten markup can look prettier; a text area created by rails looks messy in the sour...

Your observation is correct, but I don't follow your conclusion. If the correct behaviour is to ignore starting line breaks then how would adding an (ignored) l...

There is a little known quirk in HTML that causes a textarea tag that starts with a newline to ignore the first newline:

textarea_tag(:test1,"Foobar")
textarea...