Question

as we all know that html_safe work in controller and view
i am sending some data from user_mailer.rb file and its having some special character like if i wrote &”samarth” so its show &amd&quotsamarth&quot
the code is

def alert_publication_notification(user, cust_alert, home_url)

load_mailer_settings
@content_type = "text/html"
@subject = ("[abc]- #{cust_alert.alert.name.html_safe} : mail ") due to this line i am getting special character any solution 
@from = "sam"
@recipients = user.login
@bcc = Settings.emailid_alerts
@sent_on = Time.now
@customer_alert = cust_alert
@user = user
@home_url = home_url

end

Answer 1

use raw(some_variable) function for RAILS 3 this will not show encoded characters.