From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T05:00:51+09:00
Subject: Re: erb reference anywhere online?

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:14:00AM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:
> Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> > I have "Ruby for Rails" coming in in a few days, but in the meantime,
> > is there a good online ref for erb? I haven't been able to find one.
>=20
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/erb/rdoc/
>=20
> Also, the documentation for erubis (a better, faster implementation of=20
> erb) is pretty good. Since they implement the same base feature set,=20
> this should help you.
> http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/users-guide.html
>=20
> To be honest, there's nothing much you need to know about erb in Rails.
>=20
> <% if foo %>
> ...
> <% end %>
>=20
> <%=3D some_expression %>
>=20
> <%=3Dh some_expression_which_needs_html_escaping %>

True.  What's really needed is some guidelines for getting things done
with erb/erubis/etc., rather than documentation, for the most part --
such as how to solve some common problems people might encounter
migrating from a PHP way of doing things to an erb way of doing things.

Greater visibility of certain documentation matters might be nice, too,
like all the default path and custom path definition stuff that goes on
when working with an erb implementation.

Maybe, some day, I'll get around to writing up some of that stuff myself,
but ideally someone else would do it so it'd exist sooner than the
apocalypse.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
C. Hoare: "Two ways of constructing software: (1) make it so simple that
there are obviously no bugs, (2) make it so complicated that there are
no obvious bugs. Making it simple is far more difficult."

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