From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T23:11:46+09:00
Subject: Re: delayed string interpolation

On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:

> Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> One option is two levels of interpolation:
>>
>> generator = "my gen"
>> application = "my test app"
>> header = "\"<html>.....#{generator} .... #{application} .... 
>> \#{title}\""
>> ...
>> title = "foo"
>> real_header = eval header
>
> By this point I'd have switched to a proper template engine, just to
> make sure the eval didn't bring in some hairy corner cases (am I being
> overly paranoid?) I was going to suggest this earlier, in fact, but I
> felt amrita was probably a bit too heavy for this case.

This was my first thought when reading the original message as well.  
Might want to have a look at erb in the standard library.

James Edward Gray II