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"'this has quotes'".gsub("'", "\\'") # => "this has quotes'this has quotes"
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ggoodale commented Mar 5, 2014

Right, missed that you wanted the backslashes. :) For that, you can use %q:

"'this has quotes'".gsub("'", %q(\\\'))

note that if you're testing this in irb, you'll see double backslashes; stick puts in front to verify that you're getting the right output.

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