Ruby: Escaping special characters in a string

Question

I am trying to write a method that is the same as mysqli_real_escape_string in PHP. It takes a string and escapes any \'dangerous\' characters. I have looked fo

Answer 1

Take a look at the ActiveRecord sanitization methods: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#method-c-sanitize_sql_array