From: mame@... Date: 2016-03-17T13:13:06+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:74421] [Ruby trunk Feature#11997] A method to read a file with interpolations Issue #11997 has been updated by Yusuke Endoh. -1. I don't think that this is suitable as a core feature. We should leave such a thing to a library like erb. ---------------------------------------- Feature #11997: A method to read a file with interpolations https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11997#change-57544 * Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada * Status: Feedback * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- I request a single method that reads a file while interpreting interpolated Ruby code in it (in the current context). For example, suppose I have a file `foo.txt`. foo.txt ~~~ #{char * 20} Hello, my name is #{name}. #{char * 20} ~~~ I am not sure about what method name the proposed feature should have, and on which class it should be defined, but let's temporarily call it `File.eval`. Then I would like to do: ~~~ruby char = "*" name = "John Doe" File.eval("foo.txt") # => "********************\nHello, my name is John Doe.\n********************\n" ~~~ The use case that I have in mind is to easily create template engines/preprocessors, or do an equivalent of what such software do on the fly within a script. There are tools like erb, SCSS, haml, etc., but those force a particular syntax, and they are full fledged software with their own parsing capability, which means it takes an extra time to parse, and the sortware may have their own bugs. I often feel that I do not want to adopt any of the syntax forced in those limited choice of template/preprocessing software, but do it in a freer way. Using what we have currently, I can do it with: ~~~ruby eval('"' + File.read("foo.txt") + '"') ~~~ but that looks cumbersome, and wish if Ruby had a C-level built-in capability for doing that. I believe that would encourage wide range of Ruby users to more freely create their own templating system. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: