Escaping single and double quotes in a string in ruby?

Question

How can I escape single and double quotes in a string?

I want to escape single and double quotes together. I know how to pass them separately but don\'t know how to

Answer 1

My preferred way is to not worry about escaping and instead use %q, which behaves like a single-quote string (no interpolation or character escaping), or %Q for double quoted string behavior:

str = %q[ruby 'on rails" ] # like single-quoting
str2 = %Q[quoting with #{str}] # like double-quoting: will insert variable

See https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/trunk/syntax/literals_rdoc.html#label-Strings and search for % strings.