Using sanitize within a Rails controller

Question

I\'m trying to call sanitize within a controller. Here\'s what I tried:

class FooController < ApplicationController
  include ActionView::Hel         


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here but I'm almost 100% certain it doesn't belong in the controller.

If you want to sanitize an attribute before you save it to the DB, do so in the model with a before save callback.

Otherwise, sanitize in the view template or view helper.