Html Helpers

This plugin lets you encode and decode (UTF-8) strings using HTML entities. Two new methods will be automatically available in your views:

• encode_entities: Encodes a string into a string with HTML entities:

<%= encode_entities(“Über geek”) %> => ”Über geek”

• decode_entities: Decodes a string with HTML entities into a string:

<%= decode_entities(”Über geek”) %> => “Über geek”

What’s new in 1.1

Now it’s possible to include the helpers in other classes easily by just including Leftbee::HTMLHelpers in your class.

If you really need to to use the helpers in a model you can do it like this:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base include Leftbee::HTMLHelpers end

or a controller:

class PersonController < ApplicationController include Leftbee::HTMLHelpers end

etc.

Note: Don’t feed the helpers with anything else but UTF-8. If you really need to, convert your string to UTF-8 first using Iconv (http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/iconv/rdoc/index.html)

A basic test unit is included.

HTMLHelpers is copyright© 2006 Ruben Nine (ruben.nine@gmail.com), released under the MIT license HTMLEntities is copyright© 2005-2006 Paul Battley, released under the MIT license

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