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-rw-r--r--actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
index 3389c124eb..6535dd2e25 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ require 'erb'
class ERB
module Util
- HTML_ESCAPE = { '&' => '&amp;', '"' => '&quot;', '>' => '&gt;', '<' => '&lt;' }
+ HTML_ESCAPE = { '&' => '&amp;', '>' => '&gt;', '<' => '&lt;', '"' => '&quot;' }
+ JSON_ESCAPE = { '&' => '\u0026', '>' => '\u003E', '<' => '\u003C'}
# A utility method for escaping HTML tag characters.
# This method is also aliased as <tt>h</tt>.
@@ -16,6 +17,23 @@ class ERB
def html_escape(s)
s.to_s.gsub(/[&"><]/) { |special| HTML_ESCAPE[special] }
end
+
+ # A utility method for escaping HTML entities in JSON strings.
+ # This method is also aliased as <tt>j</tt>.
+ #
+ # In your ERb templates, use this method to escape any HTML entities:
+ # <%=j @person.to_json %>
+ #
+ # ==== Example:
+ # puts json_escape("is a > 0 & a < 10?")
+ # # => is a \u003E 0 \u0026 a \u003C 10?
+ def json_escape(s)
+ s.to_s.gsub(/[&"><]/) { |special| JSON_ESCAPE[special] }
+ end
+
+ alias j json_escape
+ module_function :j
+ module_function :json_escape
end
end