Escaping values in Rails (similar to mysql_real_escape_string())

Question

I know about prepared statements, but if I\'m using raw SQL, does ActiveRecord have a way to manually escape values?

Something like this would be nice:

Answer 1

You can do:

Dude.sanitize("O'Malley")

or

Dude.connection.quote("O'Malley")

both with the same result: => "'O''Malley'"