From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T10:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Nees Rhtml Book


On Mar 21, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:

> 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:
>> ...It is important only if you use multiple language
>> interpreters or your web application framework requires it.
>
Read the whole post again and notice the part above.
It is entirely true.
Rails is a web application framework that requires it. It doesn't  
have to though. It doesn't even have to use ERb, it can use one of  
the other eRuby implementations such as eRubis. But these things take  
tinkering. Configuration.