From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T01:32:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick, erb, and .rhtml

print or puts will send their output to STDOUT - anything sent there
will go to the shell that you used to start webrick.  ERb is simply
transforming a string, so you have to use <%= to get portions of that
string replaced with something else.

Bill


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:25:17 +0900, Belorion <belorion@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You need <%= %> rather than <% %>.  But keep in mind that what erb
> > will show you is the result of evaluating the expression.  The result
> > of evaluating 10.times {...} is 10 -- and the result of evaluating
> > puts is nil.  So if you want to display all the numbers, you'd want
> > something like:
> >
> >    <%= (1..10).to_a.join(", ") %>
> >
> > David
> 
> Further research shows me that on the Erb website
> (http://www2a.biglobe.ne.jp/~seki/ruby/erb.html) that
> 
> Hello <% print "world" %>
> 
> Should give me:
> 
> Hello world
> 
> But this is not the case.  Rather, I get worldHello.  ???  Does anyone
> else have this behaviour with Erb?
> 
> 


-- 
$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"