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To people horrified by the Rails code, keep in mind that Github is running Rails 2.3, which is very old and near the end of LTS. Rails 3.x has reworked the enti
by lobster_johnson 14y ago
To people horrified by the Rails code, keep in mind that Github is running Rails 2.3, which is very old and near the end of LTS. Rails 3.x has reworked the entire escaping situation and now avoids the re-escaping trap (strings must be flagged as "HTML safe", otherwise they are escaped on final injection into a document).
- codewright 14y agoSo, what's their upgrade path situation? Are they going to try to hold out indefinitely on 2.3? Upgrade at the last possible moment? (Ick) Switch out of Rails when the situation becomes intolerable?
- lobster_johnson 14y agoI wouldn't know. I don't know anyone at Github who might answer this.