From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-11-16T22:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ERB suggestions

On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 10:00:26 PM, Michael wrote:

>> Second, the Ruby 'erb' interface could be much improved.  Code written
>> with it is very cryptic.  I'm happy to prepare a patch, but only if
>> there's support for changing it.

> Can you give an example, how your proposed non-cryptic code would look like?

Instead of

  erb = ERB.new(template_text, 1, '%<>')

the following is at least an improvement.

  erb = ERB.new(template_text, :safe_level => 1, :shortcut => true,
                               :cut_lines => '<>')

I'd prefer

  erb = ERB.new(template_text) do |e|
    e.safe_level = 1
    e.shortcut = true
    e.cut_lines = '<>'      # This is still cryptic, but that's OK.
  end

Gavin