From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2005-07-01T00:57:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you use Erb outside of Apache?

On 6/29/05, Kyle Heon <kheon@comcast.net> wrote:
> Nevermind. I figured it out.
> 
> code:
> 
> require 'erb'
> @foo = "Hello World!"
> erb = ERB.new("<pre>foo: <%= @foo %></pre>")
> erb.run
> 
> result:
> 
> <pre>foo: Hello World!</pre>
> 
> If there is a better way, I'm still open.

You can also use eruby on the command line:

  $ cat hello.template 
  <%
    def greet( who )
      "Hello, #{who}!"
    end
  %><pre>foo: <%= greet( "world" ) %></pre>

  $ eruby hello.template 
  <pre>foo: Hello, world!</pre>

Jacob Fugal