A Rails 3 gotcha with html_safe

This was causing me to scratch my head a bit today. I'm glad I know what's going on now and why you need to use safe_concat. It still seems a little unintuitive though. For more into see the explanation here (under the "the tricky part") and the api docs on ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer

My (first) contribution to Rails

I fixed a little mysql configuration bug in Rails. It counted as three commits (even though they are the same thing, just in different branches), which puts me unfairly into the top 500 all time committers. ;) See here.

You'd think DHH would be number one, but actually he's not. Take a look at the list.

Here is my original pull request if you'd like to read more about it.

Ps, I also reported a capybara bug (along with a failing test) that got fixed pretty quickly. But my fork didn't get merged so none of my commits are recorded. :P