Question

At the moment, I have this run of code:

<%=h current_user.notes.collect { |t| t.name }.join(', ') %>

which outputs this:

note 1, note 2, note 3

How can I change it so that the output looks like this?

"note 1", "note 2", "note 3"

Thanks for reading.

Edit: Here is the full code of KandadaBoggu’s suggestion below

$(window).ready(function() {
    $("input#note_name").autocomplete({
        source: [<%=h escape_javascript(current_user.notes.collect { |t| '"%s"' % t.name }.join(', ')) %>]
    });
});

And here is the output HTML:

$(window).ready(function() {
    $("input#note_name").autocomplete({
        source: [\"note 1\", \"note 2\"]
    });
});

Answer 1

Try this:

current_user.notes.collect { |t| '"%s"' % t.name }.join(', ')

You can escape the string for javascript:

escape_javascript(current_user.notes.collect { |t| '"%s"' % t.name }.join(', '))

Note
If you test the code in a irb console it will print the following output:

"\"note 1\", \"note 2\", \"note 3\""

This is the correct result as the irb console escapes the quotes. The string will be displayed without the \ in a view