diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/application.js b/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
index 86053f0..902f1e8 100755
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/application.js
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ $("pre.javascript").snippet("javascript",{style:"rand01",transparent:true,showNu
 
 };
 
+function coerceToString(val) {
+  return String((val === null || val === undefined) ? '' : val);
+}
+
 var rAmp = /&/g,
      rLt = /</g,
      rGt = />/g,
diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 2c89c24..25ef3f4 100755
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ module Railsgoat
     config.filter_parameters += [:password]
 
     # Enable escaping HTML in JSON.
-    #config.active_support.escape_html_entities_in_json = false
+    #config.active_support.escape_html_entities_in_json = true
 
     # Use SQL instead of Active Record's schema dumper when creating the database.
     # This is necessary if your schema can't be completely dumped by the schema dumper,