Hashtag symbol in Ruby on Rails string [closed]

I have a string in Ruby on Rails. This string contains a '#' character. The problem is that my program interprets this '#' as comment, but it is part of a password string. How can I handle this?

The file is the config file for GitLab

Here is a snippet from the SMTP configuration where I'm struggling.

gitlab_rails['smtp_enable'] = true  gitlab_rails['smtp_address'] = "smtp.xxx.com" gitlab_rails['smtp_port'] = 465gitlab_rails['smtp_user_name'] = "abc@xxx.com"  gitlab_rails['smtp_password'] = "X#X" #<-- This is the problem in the gitlab.rb file  gitlab_rails['smtp_domain'] = "xxx.com" gitlab_rails['smtp_authentication'] = "login"  gitlab_rails['gitlab_email_from'] = 'abc@xxx.com'gitlab_rails['gitlab_email_reply_to'] = 'abc@xxx.com'gitlab_rails['smtp_tls'] = true  

I've tried '\#', tested the '%23', ...