From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T13:30:42+09:00
Subject: Re: eRB <%=

From:	Rob Sanheim [mailto:rsanheim@gmail.com]
> One thing I've often wondered is how do you output from w/i a "non
> output" block...ie in java scriptlets these are equivalent:
> 
> <% out.println("hi") %>
> <%= "hi" %>
> 
> With ERB I've had some (admittedly rare) cases where this would be
> useful.  Is it possible?

As others have noted, you can concatenate to the _erbout string variable.
You can also name this variable whatever you like (4th param to the ERB initializer).
You can also patch ERB so that print/puts/p all do what you might expect:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/152909