Question

Say I have the following double-quoted string in Ruby:

"Person's name"

Does the single quote need to be escaped?

Answer 1

Your test and the aother answers showed you already, that there is no difference.

p "Person's name"
p "Person\'s name"

With single quotes, it is a difference:

You get a syntax error with

p 'Person's name' 

The quoted version will work:

p 'Person\'s name'

If this behaviour irritated you, perhaps you prefer another possibility to create a String:

p %{Person's name}
p %q{Person's name} #like '
p %Q{Person's name} #like "