Question

I’m running a Octopress blog which is based on Jekyll. Now I wanted to add some Javascript which I like to write in CoffeeScript.

I followed this Gist to create a simple converter that compiles CoffeeScript to Javascript:

module Jekyll
  require 'coffee-script'

  class CoffeeScriptConverter < Converter
    safe true
    priority :low

    def matches(ext)
      ext =~ /coffee/i
    end

    def output_ext(ext)
      '.js'
    end

    def convert(content)
      begin
        CoffeeScript.compile content
      rescue StandardError => e
        puts "CoffeeScript error: #{e.message}"
      end
    end
  end
end

The problem is that the generated Javascript file has all quotes escaped (single quotes by ‘ and double quotes by “)

When I output the generated Javascript code in the convert method, it looks fine (quotes are not escaped).
I googled a lot but nobody seems to have this problem.
What could be the issue here?

Answer 1

Turns out Octopress runs the content through RubyPants by default (see plugins/octopress_filters.rb). Disabling RubyPants did the trick!