Question

I have the following line containing a regex using RoR in a view (show.html.haml):

- unless @article.content =~ /find(#{image.id})/

The problem is that the regex is not evaluated since it’s interpreted as a comment. How can I escape the comment?

Answer 1

- unless @article.content =~ Regexp.new("find(#{image.id})")

or

- unless @article.content =~ %r{find(#{image.id})}

Edit: I guess I did not really answer the question. To escape the comment, take a look at cyle‘s answer that suggests using the \ character.