From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T08:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and PHP code in html-page

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On 7/12/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>
> > On 2007-07-12, Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com> wrote:
> >> On Jul 12, 12:43 pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
> >>> On 2007-07-12, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> With php you can just include a file, but ERb doesn't let you do
> >>>> that (AFAIK).
> >>>
> >>> <%= IO.read "yes_it_does.txt" %>
> >>
> >> Not quite when you want the included file to have ERB commands in it:
> >
> > Good point!
> >
> > <%= ERB.new(IO.read("how_about_this_then.erb")).result(binding) %>
> >
> > Jeremy Henty
> >
> That's OK I guess, but it's not as graceful as usual Ruby things.
> I guess I'm going to look into Camping and those others.
> I checked out the Merb site once but it was all RDoc with no solid
> examples.


You can of course make it more graceful:

def erb_include(path, b = nil)
   b = binding unless b
   ERB.new(IO.read(path)).result(b)
end


<%= erb_include("file.erb") %>

It's still a bit icky w/ local vars :( [But that's part of the reason I
don't like templating like this anyway]


CGI is just too ugly, it might as well be Perl for that, I wish
> DreamHost would run mod_ruby...
> I'm just finding that Rails is just way more than what I want or
> need. Lots of cool stuff in it, but the problem is that there is just
> so much there. Getting started is easy enough, but things start to
> grind down to a crawl as you beginning unravelling all the details.
> It's like any big framework, it's highly productive and useful AFTER
> you've spent months learning it. There's definitely a learning curve
> and things start to get pretty complicated pretty quickly.
>
> It's too bad that ERb itself isn't better tutorialized.
>
>

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