From: Larry White <ljw1001@...>
Date: 2005-12-10T12:19:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Customizing erb's recognized tags

that might be a good solution.  i'll give it a try. thanks.

On 12/9/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Larry White wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Does anyone know if it's possible to change the tags that erb
> > recognizes so that for instance, I can have it replace on #{} instead
> > of <%= %>  ?
> >
> > If so, could you point me an example of how it's done?
>
> I wrote a hack that overrides IO.read.  When IO grabs the file, it
> checks the file extension;  if it's an erb template, it replaces <? ?>
> (with some variants) markup with <% %> before passing along the content.
>
> It was a Good Enough sort of thing for the circumstances.
>
>
> class IO
>    class <<self
>      alias real_read read
>    end
>
>    def IO.read( *args )
>      return IO.real_read( *args ) unless args[0].to_s =~ /\.rhtml/i
>      text = IO.real_read( *args )
>      s = ''
>      text.each_line(  ) { |l|
>        next if l =~ /<?xml/
>       l.gsub!( '<?eq', '<%=')
>       l.gsub!( '<? ', '<% ')
>       l.gsub!( '?>', '%>')
>       s << "#{l}\n"
>      }
>      s
>    end
> end
>
>
> James
>
>
>
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