From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T13:06:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning erb

I think what he's saying is that <%= "34" %> will output a 34 to the
result, but <% puts 34 %> will output that stream to STDOUT.  So if he
were calling ERb#result, he'd get the result of the former in its
return value but the second statement's output wouldn't go into the
result string.

Bill

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:25:18 +0900, James Edward Gray II
<james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what your question is.
> 
> Maybe I'm not either.  Thanks for trying to help me.
> 
> I believe I actually understand what's going on, but the short blurb in
> the back of the Pickaxe II confuses me.
> 
> Let me try asking in one more way to see if it changes the answers I'm
> getting.  Under what circumstances will <% ... %> add to the output?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 
> P.S.  erb may be pretty simple, but dang I'm doing some cool stuff with
> it over here!  Madlibs anyone?  <laughs>
> 
> P.P.S.  Is it just me or is Ruby's StdLib of excellent quality,
> especially compared to say Perl's StdLib.  I'm constantly awed by what
> I find hiding in standard Ruby.
> 
>