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So why would a currency formatter generate HTML instead of plain text? That seems very strange to me. How does the helper know if I want to use the number in HT

• wilg 13y ago
  The view-dependent stuff is in fact separated from the business conversion logic and can be used in a non-web context if you want. Here's the version for use in a view context: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/number_helper.rb#L107 https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionview/lib/ac... You can see that this method has some XSS prevention logic. Here's the converter itself: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/number_helper/number_to_currency_converter.rb https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib...