Method: ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper#cdata_section

Defined in:

actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tag_helper.rb

#cdata_section(content) ⇒ Object

Returns a CDATA section with the given content. CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the string <![CDATA[ and end with (and may not contain) the string ]]>.

cdata_section("<hello world>")
# => <![CDATA[<hello world>]]>

cdata_section(File.read("hello_world.txt"))
# => <![CDATA[<hello from a text file]]>

cdata_section("hello]]>world")
# => <![CDATA[hello]]]]><![CDATA[>world]]>

# File 'actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tag_helper.rb', line 558

def cdata_section(content)
  splitted = content.to_s.gsub(/\]\]>/, "]]]]><![CDATA[>")
  "<![CDATA[#{splitted}]]>".html_safe
end