Fixing Redmine user page-load-error on Debian 6

For those who are using redmine on debian-6.0, and using redmine might see problem using it, when we try to visit the user page.

Error look something like this.

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `html_safe' for "user@mycompany.com":String) on line #10 of app/views/users/show.rhtml:

Solution to this problem is to apply this patch.

redmine-server:/usr/share/redmine# diff /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb.orig 476,477c476<           #html = content_tag("a", name || email_address_obfuscated.html_safe, html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))<                 html = content_tag("a", name || html_escape(email_address_obfuscated), html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))--->           html = content_tag("a", name || email_address_obfuscated.html_safe, html_options.merge({ "href" => "mailto:"+html_escape(email_address)+extras }))mdserver1:/usr/share/redmine# 

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