Escaping " in Rails and Javascript

Question

I have an array of hashes that consists of my product data in @product_records. I can extract the name of the product using the map function like this:

<%= @product_records.map{|x|x["Name"]} %> 

which renders exactly how I want it to the page like this:

["Product1","Product2",...,"Productn"] 

I want to try and pass this into a javascript variable so that I can use it with JQuery autocomplete.

var data = <%= @product_records.map{|x|x["Name"]} %> 

When I try and set it though the double quotes are escaping like this:

["Product1", "Product2",...,"Productn"] 

I have tried various things to try and get the quotes back (.to_json etc) but nothing seems to work. There probably a very simple answer to this but I can't find what it is.

Cheers for any help.

Answer 1

Use <%= raw your_variable %> :)

Answer 2

When you use that variable in javascript make sure, you have single quote to execute rails code in javascript.

'<%= raw @products.to_json %>' 

thanks