Why does Rails 2.3.16 escape quote chars in form fields?

Question

Consider a simple object Shop which has a string attribute \'name\'.

Our example shop has the name:

Sam\'s Diner & Cafe - \"deelicious\"
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Answer 1

This appears to have been something broken in 2.3.16. See https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9108 for a fix that worked for me at least.