Okay, then try the <%=h dummy_password %> here instead. I thought that it was default in all contexts, but perhaps inside a mailer template it is not?
Walter On May 16, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Loganathan Sellapa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Walter, > > Just wanted to let you know > > , I have tried without html_safe already it didnt encode the "<" in to > "<". Regarding the second point, I need to send the plain password since > this token password which needs to be used only once by the customer. > > Regards, > Logan > > Sent from Mobile device. > > On 16 May 2015 23:29, "Walter Lee Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 16, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Loganathan Sellapa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have to send user profile password via email, where password will have > > special characters as below > > > > >>"><<<<<!@#$%^&*()_-+=|{}[]/.,` > > > > Whenever I send email, some of the special characters are not being > > displayed, I have used the html_safe, also set the meta tag as below, but > > special characters are always being removed in the mails, can anybody let > > me know the way to display special characters in mailer views? > > > > <meta content='text/html charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'> > > > > Actual password: >>><<<<<!@#$%^&*()_-+=|{}[]/.,` > > Password in mail: >>><<<` > > Two things: first, html_safe means "this character doesn't need to be > escaped" when actually, you mean the opposite. The character is probably > there, but the fact that you have used angle brackets (but not escaped them > to < and >) means that it's being interpreted as the beginning of a tag > and ignored. Try using nothing at all to escape it, which will mean that > Rails does its usual thing and converts any character that has special > meaning in HTML into an entity. It will appear in the browser/email client as > the correct character. > > Second thing: why on earth are you sending a password in clear text in an > e-mail, unless that's also inside a PGP block? You may as well write it on a > postcard (or hire a sky-writer). > > Walter > > > > > regards, > > Loganathan > > Mob: +91 7760780741 | +91 9944414388 > > Skype: loganathan.sellappa > > ViewMe > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAD_i5MHghC%3DSi%3DXrJkrdqMGsaFL3ttPABgN-%2B4Ej_%2BjkGrWD7A%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/363D3D58-4621-4634-B61C-D0B2329D0272%40wdstudio.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAD_i5MEYCfxEAh-71Jnei__E7s_jAQa0ADA%3DVP_MbMYRFB3MmA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/330F06D5-9C0A-402B-9E4E-35AC3F020667%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
