From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-01T00:39:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ERb Request

On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:55 PM, matt wrote:

> PS.  I'm wanting to request that there be a way to make comments in
> large chunks (like /* */ in C or <!--  --> in HTML), but in a way  
> that I
> can comment my .rhtml files, without the comments being passed on  
> to the
> generated code. This way I can make proper documentation comments  
> in my
> code, without having to give away any information to the general  
> public.

ERb supports this today:

$ cat erb_comment.txt
This is
<%# This is an ERb comment...
it's clever enough to let it span multiple lines -%>
a test.
$ erb -T - erb_comment.txt
This is
a test.

James Edward Gray II