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

I didn't like the top poster's way of completing this question. So far the best way I've found is to do:

- foo = "&".html_safe
%a(href='/posts' data-icon=foo aria-hidden='true')

I'm not fully happy with this, but think it's better for rails apps rather than turning off HTML escaping everywhere.