Single And Double Quoted String Notation
If you are building a string that involves interpolation and literal double quotes, then you'll have to do some escaping. Here is an example:
Having to escape a single instance of a double quote isn't so bad. If you find yourself having to do it a bunch, Ruby has something for you. It is a string syntax feature called Percent Notation.
You can use percent notation to define double-quoted strings using Q:
No need to escape the double quote here.
There is a single-quoted version as well using q:
This is notably less useful than %Q. For that reason, %Q makes sense as a default and it makes up the percent notations unmodified behavior:
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