From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T02:44:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Nees Rhtml Book

That's not entirely true; if you're using eRb with Rails, it requires
that templates end in rhtml or erb.  Otherwise, you could coceivably
use it without an extension.

--Jeremy

On 3/20/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could use eRuby with any .extension
> In fact you could serve web pages with any or no dot extension.
> The key is that the server knows what to do with it.
> An example is Apache. You tell Apache what to do with files of
> various extensions. You could tell it to parse all .html files with
> Ruby, or all .php files with Perl.
> Thus, many rails pages show URL/URI with no dot extension at all in
> the web browser. It is important only if you use multiple language
> interpreters or your web application framework requires it.
>
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:38 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > On 3/19/07, Corey Konrad <0011@hush.com> wrote:
> >
> >> yeah rhtml is just html the r part of it is just there to tell rails
> >> that the name of the rhtml file is the name of an action.
> >
> > Not really, the rhtml tells rails (or more precisely ActionView) that
> > the file needs to be processed by erb.  It really doesn't tell it that
> > it's the name of an action, although if rails doesn't find an action
> > method in the controller, it will by default look for a file to render
> > in app/views/controller_name.  This file can be an rhtml file or
> > something else (like a simple html file).
> >
> > Rhtml is html with embedded ruby.  It does get processed on the server
> > side by erb, or an equivalent program. What basically happens is that
> > it get's turned into ruby code which writes out the html portions
> > interspersed with the output from the embedded ruby code.
> >
> > There's not much to it in normal usage.  The key concepts are that
> > ruby code gets embedded within  <% %> pairs,   If the first <% is
> > followed by an = sign, then the value of the ruby expression following
> > is inserted into the output.
> >
> > The client browser never sees the rhtml, only the (x)html which
> > results from running erb.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rick DeNatale
> >
> > My blog on Ruby
> > http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
> >
>
>
>


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