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

JQuery Air (codeschool.com) Level 1, Example 1

Codeschool/platform-independent version

  

    
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<%= content_tag(:a, "Sep 27",:href=> "#2012-09-27", :data => { :flights => "6" } ) %>
    
<%= content_tag(:a, "Sep 28",:href=> "#2012-09-28", :data => { :flights => "5" } ) %>
    
<%= content_tag(:a, "Sep 29",:href=> "#2012-09-29", :data => { :flights => "5" } ) %>