From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-07-25T21:24:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rails 0.5.0: The end of vaporware!

> The 10 minute video is really impressive. But after browsing through 
> the documentation I haven't found an answer to one question: what does 
> happen with XML special chars like <> when you write <%= @post.text 
> %>?

I'm not sure I understand the question, but everything within a <% %> 
block is interpreted as regular Ruby code through ERb (the Ruby-version 
of eRuby). You can read more about how the Action View works in 
http://ap.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView.html.

Every other tag is left untouched by the View. So basically the 
templates are plain text files that can hold anything (HTML, XML, 
LaTeX, emails) sprinkled with Ruby embeddings to add dynamic behavior.
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