RedCloth escaping HTML output

Question

After watching this RailsCast, I thought I'd give RedCloth a try. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm having an issue that involves the resultant HTML being encodeded instead of rendered as straight HTML.

1. First I added the following to my Gemfile:

   gem 'RedCloth', '4.2.7'
   

2. I added a basic RedCloth implementation to my view:

   <%= RedCloth.new("* one\n* two\n * three").to_html %>
   

3. When I "view source" for the page that is rendered, this is what appears:

   <ul>
       <li>one</li>
       <li>two</li>
       <li>three</li>
   </ul>
   

   The output I expected was the following:

   <ul>
       <li>one</li>
       <li>two</li>
       <li>three</li>
   </ul>
   

   Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to pass a parameter to to_html or the RedCloth constructor?

Answer 1

Try this:

<%= raw RedCloth.new("* one\n* two\n * three").to_html %>

Also check out this blog post on the subject.