From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T08:54:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and PHP code in html-page

--Apple-Mail-1--181183785
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=US-ASCII;
	delsp=yes;
	format=flowed


On Jul 12, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote:

> On 2007-07-12, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>>
>>> <%= ERB.new(IO.read("how_about_this_then.erb")).result(binding) %>
>>>
>> That's OK I guess, but it's not as graceful as usual Ruby things.
>
> I agree, though you can pretty it up somewhat (as is pointed out
> elsewhere in this thread).
>
>> I guess I'm going to look into Camping and those others.
>
> I've not yet decided if my head is twisted enough to survive being
> wrapped around one of _why's frameworks.  :-)
>
> Jeremy Henty
>
Well I looked at Camping again. No. _why's stuff is sometimes bent on  
mental tangents of playfulness.
The file is one big mess. Also it requires ActiveRecord, which is of  
course a marvel of marvels, but I'm trying to do the simple PHP type  
of includes.
I got this to work fine:
			<%= File.open('links.rhtml').readlines %>
Along with this:
		<% Dir.chdir('images') %>
		<% Dir.glob("*").each do |img| %>
			<p><img src=<%= "images/#{img}" %> /> <br /> <%= img.to_s %></p>
			
		<% end %>

The images seem to load slowly, which is odd, since they're actually  
being served from the file system. The ERb stuff just renders the  
html based on what's there in the directory.

So far so good. Your hints actually helped me think about ERb in  
terms of standard Ruby rather than the prolific Rails views which  
include lots of Rails-specific methods.

This is most promising, and I think I will begin posting some  
tutorials on it so others can apply it.

Thanks ya'll, I don't know why ERb never clicked before, but now it  
makes sense suddenly!
I can finally knock out simple stuff for a friend of mine to upload  
images to his simple site without him being hassled by the details of  
web design.
Now I just need to add some RMagick to thumbnail things and some YAML  
to store metadata on the images and thumbnails and just a little  
directory structure to make things organized.
This is gonna be much better for me than Rails.

John Joyce


--Apple-Mail-1--181183785--