From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T08:27:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie eRuby site design question

Peter Woodsky wrote:
> Hi list
> I'm designing a dynamic site using eruby/mod_ruby and so far its coming
> together pretty well but I'm stuck on something and could use some help.
> I have a config file (out of the web root) that I'm using to set params
> and vars. I'd rather not embed a db select into my pages but rather have
> it in my config and just call the data from a var but nothing I've tried
> works.
>
> example
>
> //in config//
> row = dbh.select_one("select banner,title,message,image from contents;")
> banner = "#{row[0]}"; title = "#{row[1]}"; message = "#{row[2]}"; image
> = "#{row[3]}"
>
> //in web page//
> <div id="header">
> <img src="/public/banners/<%=banner%>" width="1003" height="196"
> border="0">
> </div>
> <div id="page">
>   <div id="colOne">
>         [menu]
>   </div>
>   <div id="colTwo">
>   <div id="title"><%=title%></div>
>   <div id="message"><%=message%></div>
>   </div>
> <div id="colThree"><img src="/public/images/<%=image%>"
> border="0"></div>
> </div>
>
> How do I define the output from the select so I can use it in my page?
> In the above example I get errors that banner, title, message, image are
> not defined.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks!!
>   

Try using ERuby.import("config.rb") at the top of your page to parse and 
run the config file first.

-Justin