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So I got this address 7 rue la Tour d'Auvergne from an API request in AJAX.

But when I feed it to an input in my view or even just display it like this

get_adress.js.erb

alert('<%= @sellsy_address.address %>')
$('#address').val('<%= @sellsy_address.address unless @sellsy_address.blank? %>');

I got this 7 rue la Tour d&#39;Auvergne

Any idea on how I can manage to keep the d' as it is ? I tried to encode or decode it in different ways but no results.

Thanks in advance

EDIT

If I use raw of html_safe, my js.erb just does not load at all anymore

Manspider
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Try using html_safe along with escape_javascript (or j), like this:

alert('<%= j @sellsy_address.address.html_safe %>');

Alternatively, you could skip j but change single quotes to double quotes, like this:

alert("<%= @sellsy_address.address.html_safe %>");

If I use raw of html_safe, my js.erb just does not load at all anymore

That is because you get a syntax error due to the ' in 7 rue la Tour d'Auvergne being inside single quotes. Check the following examples;

Single quotes, without escape_javascript (or j)

alert('<%= @sellsy_address.address.html_safe %>');

//generated code:
alert('7 rue la Tour d'Auvergne');

As you can see, the alert gets the string '7 rue la Tour d' and then expects a closing parenthesis ()), so you get an error an no alert is displayed.

Single quotes, with escape_javascript (or j)

alert('<%= j @sellsy_address.address.html_safe %>');

//generated code:
alert('7 rue la Tour d\'Auvergne');

Now the ' has been escaped and is no longer a closing quote, so the alert is correctly displayed.

Double quotes, without escape_javascript (or j)

alert("<%= @sellsy_address.address.html_safe %>");

//generated code:
alert("7 rue la Tour d'Auvergne");

This time ' needs no escaping since the string is enclosed between double quotes ('" "') which avoids any conflict with single quotes (').

Gerry
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