From: Charles Comstock <cc1@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T08:36:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick, erb, and .rhtml

Martin DeMello wrote:
> Belorion <belorion@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>That's tough luck for me then.  I have a significantly large rhtml
>>project that uses lots of puts and print because that works fine in
>>Apache/eRuby/mod_ruby.  Guess I have a lot of busy work ahead of me,
>>changing all my puts/prints to <%= "" %> if I want to support Webrick
>>serving.  Thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> Would simply overriding 'puts' and 'print' to return what they print
> work? That way you only need to change <% to <%= .
> 
> martin

Why is it that erb doesn't override kernel puts and print so they go to 
ERBOUT instead of STDOUT.  That way you wouldn't get weird orderings 
when you use them and it would make more sense.  If you actually want to 
print output to stdout or anything like that then you explicitly call 
STDOUT.print or .puts.  I think alot of people assume that print and 
puts output in the same interlaced order as the <% and <%= blocks, but 
they really don't.  Does anyone have a good reason why this should not 
be the case?
	Charles Comstock