How could I escape a & in Haml so that it compiles to & instead of &? (Haml noob)

Question

I am trying to use the Icomoon icon font with Haml and can\'t seem to find a way to escape the & so that it stays just an & instead of

Answer 1

You can use the :escape_attrs option to control whether HTML sensitive characters in attributes are escaped:

require 'haml'

haml = "%a(href='/posts' data-icon=\"&\" aria-hidden='true')"

puts Haml::Engine.new(haml, :escape_attrs => false).to_html

Output:

Note that this will apply to all attributes in your Haml template.