The article below was originally written by Kasper Timm Hansen (@kaspth on github & twitter) about his work during the Google Summer of Code 2013. Kasper and I worked a lot changing the underlying implementation of the sanitize helper to give Rails developers a more robust, faster and secure solution to sanitize user input. This new implementation should be fully backward compatible, with no chang
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