I need to generate a hidden input element with ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper#hidden_field_tag, but I don't want the input value to be escaped.
What I would like to do is this:
<%= hidden_field_tag('hidden_input', sanitize('actual_input_value'), :escape => false) %>
But this just renders an HTML input with escape="false" as an attribute.
I can get around this by avoiding the FormTagHelper#hidden_field_tag method and using TagHelper#tag directly:
<%= tag('input', { :name => 'hidden_input', :value => sanitize('actual_input_value'), :type => 'hidden', }, false, false).html_safe %>
But this is more verbose and less readable, particularly given that I have several usages of #hidden_field_tag very close to this tag generation.
Is my desired functionality absent by design, or is this a feature that could be added into ActionPack? It is present for at least one other helper method (see ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper#text_area_tag)