Rails 4 - Meta tags html safe

Question

I am trying to figure out the best way to make my meta tags html safe. They are currently escaping out any html.

Here is my current setup.

in my application.html.erb:

<meta name="description" content="<%= yield(:description) %>">

and in my views:

<% provide(:description, "Things being escaped from here") %>

if I simply call html safe on the provide like so...

<% provide(:description, "now it's html safe".html_safe) %>

it works fine, but I am wondering if there is a better practice in doing this. I find it wrong to have to call html safe on every single view where I am using the provide method.

Answer 1

You can create a custom helper based on the original provide.

# app/helpers/application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
  def provide_safe(name, content)
    provide(name, content.html_safe)
  end
end

And in your views, just replace provide by provide_safe

<% provide_safe(:description, "now it's html safe") %>