From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T07:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: string substitution

On May 8, 3:36 pm, Barry Abrams <barrysf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a block of html coming in from the database that looks like
> this:
>
> <div style="float:left; width:33%">
> #{@copy_1}
> </div>

Does it have to look like that? Could it instead look like this?
  <div style="float:left; width:33%">
  <%=@copy_1%>
  </div>

If so, you want ERB. Roughly:

require 'erb'
template = #...stuff from the DB
html = ERB.new( template ).result