Best way to use html5 data attributes with rails content_tag helper?

Question

The issue, of course, is that ruby symbols don\'t like hyphens. So something like this obviously won\'t work:

content_tag(:div, \"Some Text\", :id => \"fo         


        

Answer 1

Rails 3.1 ships with built-in helpers:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TagHelper.html#method-i-tag

E.g.,

tag("div", :data => {:name => 'Stephen', :city_state => %w(Chicago IL)})
# =>