diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
index bdf074fbbdd8..b0cb8d1006c2 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/java/io/swagger/codegen/DefaultGenerator.java
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ public class DefaultGenerator extends AbstractGenerator implements Generator {
                 config.additionalProperties().put("termsOfService", config.escapeText(info.getTermsOfService()));
             }
         }
-        
+
         if(swagger.getVendorExtensions() != null) {
         	config.vendorExtensions().putAll(swagger.getVendorExtensions());
         }
@@ -280,21 +280,21 @@ public class DefaultGenerator extends AbstractGenerator implements Generator {
                         Map<String, Object> models = processModels(config, modelMap, definitions);
                         models.put("classname", config.toModelName(name));
                         models.putAll(config.additionalProperties());
-                        
+
                         allProcessedModels.put(name, models);
 
                     } catch (Exception e) {
                         throw new RuntimeException("Could not process model '" + name + "'", e);
                     }
                 }
-                
+
                 // post process all processed models
                 allProcessedModels = config.postProcessAllModels(allProcessedModels);
-                
+
                 // generate files based on processed models
                 for (String name: allProcessedModels.keySet()) {
                 	Map<String, Object> models = (Map<String, Object>)allProcessedModels.get(name);
-                
+
                 	try {
                         //don't generate models that have an import mapping
                         if(config.importMapping().containsKey(name)) {
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ public class DefaultGenerator extends AbstractGenerator implements Generator {
                     operation.put("classname", config.toApiName(tag));
                     operation.put("classVarName", config.toApiVarName(tag));
                     operation.put("importPath", config.toApiImport(tag));
-                    
+
                     if(!config.vendorExtensions().isEmpty()) {
                     	operation.put("vendorExtensions", config.vendorExtensions());
                     }
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ public class DefaultGenerator extends AbstractGenerator implements Generator {
                 tags = new ArrayList<String>();
                 tags.add("default");
             }
-            
+
             /*
              build up a set of parameter "ids" defined at the operation level
              per the swagger 2.0 spec "A unique parameter is defined by a combination of a name and location"
diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api.mustache b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api.mustache
index 6dc0107e8471..7b333428899f 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api.mustache
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api.mustache
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ module {{moduleName}}
       {{/hasValidation}}
       {{/allParams}}
       # resource path
-      local_var_path = "{{path}}".sub('{format}','json'){{#pathParams}}.sub('{' + '{{baseName}}' + '}', {{paramName}}.to_s){{/pathParams}}
+      local_var_path = "{{{path}}}".sub('{format}','json'){{#pathParams}}.sub('{' + '{{baseName}}' + '}', {{paramName}}.to_s){{/pathParams}}
 
       # query parameters
       query_params = {}
diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api_client.mustache b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api_client.mustache
index 71a392082388..496d52d3757e 100644
--- a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api_client.mustache
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/ruby/api_client.mustache
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ module {{moduleName}}
     # @return [Tempfile] the file downloaded
     def download_file(response)
       content_disposition = response.headers['Content-Disposition']
-      if content_disposition
+      if content_disposition and content_disposition =~ /filename=/i
         filename = content_disposition[/filename=['"]?([^'"\s]+)['"]?/, 1]
         prefix = sanitize_filename(filename)
       else
diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/java/io/swagger/codegen/ruby/RubyClientCodegenTest.java b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/java/io/swagger/codegen/ruby/RubyClientCodegenTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..40b7e8dc55b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/java/io/swagger/codegen/ruby/RubyClientCodegenTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package io.swagger.codegen.ruby;
+
+import io.swagger.codegen.ClientOpts;
+import io.swagger.codegen.ClientOptInput;
+import io.swagger.codegen.CodegenConfig;
+import io.swagger.codegen.DefaultGenerator;
+import io.swagger.codegen.languages.RubyClientCodegen;
+import io.swagger.models.Swagger;
+import io.swagger.parser.SwaggerParser;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
+import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+import static org.testng.Assert.*;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for RubyClientCodegen-generated templates
+ */
+public class RubyClientCodegenTest {
+
+  public TemporaryFolder folder = new TemporaryFolder();
+
+  @BeforeMethod
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+      folder.create();
+  }
+
+  @AfterMethod
+  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
+      folder.delete();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGenerateRubyClientWithHtmlEntity() throws Exception {
+      final File output = folder.getRoot();
+
+      final Swagger swagger = new SwaggerParser().read("src/test/resources/2_0/pathWithHtmlEntity.yaml");
+      CodegenConfig codegenConfig = new RubyClientCodegen();
+      codegenConfig.setOutputDir(output.getAbsolutePath());
+
+      ClientOptInput clientOptInput = new ClientOptInput().opts(new ClientOpts()).swagger(swagger).config(codegenConfig);
+
+      DefaultGenerator generator = new DefaultGenerator();
+      generator.opts(clientOptInput);
+      List<File> files = generator.generate();
+      boolean apiFileGenerated = false;
+      for (File file : files) {
+        if (file.getName().equals("default_api.rb")) {
+          apiFileGenerated = true;
+          // Ruby client should set the path unescaped in the api file
+          assertTrue(FileUtils.readFileToString(file, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).contains("local_var_path = \"/foo=bar\""));
+        }
+      }
+      if (!apiFileGenerated) {
+        fail("Default api file is not generated!");
+      }
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/resources/2_0/pathWithHtmlEntity.yaml b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/resources/2_0/pathWithHtmlEntity.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..929a5cd8f9b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/swagger-codegen/src/test/resources/2_0/pathWithHtmlEntity.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+swagger: "2.0"
+basePath: "/"
+paths:
+  /foo=bar:
+    get:
+      parameters: []
+      responses:
+        200:
+          description: "success"