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Apostrophes are appearing as "'" in the title tabs of my Rails application. Everywhere else the apostrophes appear correctly. How may I correct this issue?
Thank you.
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asked Oct 15 '25 08:10
I'm not sure whether you want the apostrophe to appear as ' or as '.
If you put your apostrophe in double quoted strings then it will render correctly:
<title><%="example 'title'" %></title> #=> example 'title'
If you put ' inside double quoted strings then it will be returned as it is written.
<title><%="example 'title'" %></title> #=> example 'title'
Finally, if you want to use ' and have it parsed correctly then you can use raw.
<title><%=raw "example 'title'" %></title> #=> example 'title'
If it is not working as expected then it may be a browser issue, however, I have tested with modern versions of Firefox and Safari and it is working correctly.
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To help those with their "Google Fu".
If you are here because you are doing the rails title on every page like SO: rails-how-to-change-the-title-of-a-page and have records where your apostrophe is appearing with the ' and simply want it with an ' (ie My Dog's Pants instead of My Dog's Pants) then you can checkout this answer that uses ruby string interpolation #{} and .html_safe.
Passing string with apostrophe to helper method doesn't display correctly
As an example, I put a method in my post.rb model:
def page_title
"#{ id.to_s + " - " + name }".html_safe
end
Then in my posts_controller.rb I have:
@title = @post.page_title
Then in my application.html.erb I have:
<body>
<title><%= ("Post - " + yield(:title) + " - " unless yield(:title).blank?).to_s + "jaykilleen.com" %></title>
</body>
Then in my show.html.erb for posts I have:
<% content_for :title, @title if @title.present? %>
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