I''ve run into an annoying inconsistency between the mail_to method''s documentation and its implementation. This would be an easy fix if the documentation was incorrect, but it seems that the implementation is the one using the wrong method. Contrary to the documentation of url_helper''s mailto, bcc and cc elements are CGI.escape()d, which seems to replace everything not alphanumeric with a %-encoding, including transforming @ to %40. This behavior is in contrast to what seems to be the original patch to enable cc and bcc handling, which called URI.escape. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/966/url_helper.patch My read of a proto-specification of mailto (http://ietfreport.isoc.org/ idref/draft-duerst-mailto-bis/) suggests that @ signs are preferred; one of my users runs a client that choked on the %40. What I''d like to ask for is: a) A suggestion as to how to override the behavior of mail_to as a workaround. Effectively, where do I put a method named mail_to ? and how do I invoke the original one before gsub(/%40/,''@''))? Or should I freeze and edit? b) A hint as to how to best submit a patch (or whether it''s worth writing one). Clearly the documentation of the method is inconsistent with its behavior. It looks like the original patch, when applied by david heinemeier hansson was transformed to use CGI.escape, that a test was written to check for %40 as the goal, but the documentation was left alone to imply that @ syntax would be used. http://sandbox.fisheye.atlassian.com/changelog/rails/?cs=f7c61b629e76e21ae78c6da3e9f6ee070d03bae8 Help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.