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Using helper methods like html_escape in rails console

I am trying to see what is going wrong with my encoding of variables in my view. So I fire up rails console and try to do

$ rails console
Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.11)
irb(main):001:0> html_escape({:a=>1, :b=>"my str"})
NoMethodError: undefined method `html_escape' for main:Object

How do I use h or html_escape in rails console?

Solution

  • you call it through helper. some methods are private so you may need to use send to call them

    helper.send(:html_escape, '123')
helper.pluralize 3, 'user'