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Asked: 2026-05-14T05:45:16+00:00

With Rails, If I have a variable with HTML content, how do I output

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With Rails, If I have a variable with HTML content, how do I output it, unencoded in my view file?

This code, for example:

<% my_variable = "<b>Some Bolded Text</b>" %>
<%= my_variable %>

Outputs:

&lt;b&gt;Some Bolded Text&lt;/b&gt;
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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you using Rails 3 Beta? Rails 2 by default does not HTML escape your output, you usually have to use the h helper, see Nate’s post. If you are using Rails 3 you need to either use the raw helper or set your string as html safe. Examples

    <% my_variable = "<b>Some Bolded Text</b>" %>
<%= raw my_variable %>

    Or

    <% my_variable = "<b>Some Bolded Text</b>".html_safe %>
<%= my_variable %>

    Check your Rails version and get back to us.

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