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Ben Muschol
Ben Muschol

Reputation: 607

How to make a method on a model that returns html to the view

I'm making a survey that has a bunch of different response types (BooleanResponse, TextResponse, etc.) via Single Table Inheritance. In my view, I'd really like to be able to call a method like response.render and have that return html code. Is this possible to do? What do I have to write in the method to make the return type compatible with an html.erb view?

(I know this can also be done in the view or the view helper with a long case/switch statement, but I'd much prefer to do it this way)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Andrey Deineko
Andrey Deineko

Reputation: 52357

All you have to do to make the method return html is to use html_safe:

def method_that_returns_html
  data = '<strong>Your html here</strong>'
  data.html_safe
end

Upvotes: 1

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