From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-12-04T23:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: using heredoc string in erb

2009/12/4 jakemiles <jacob.miles@gmail.com>:
> Hi.  I'd like to use heredoc notation in an erb view (I'm using Merb,
> but I believe this is an erb issue, not specific to merb).  For
> example, I wrote a helper function that lets me use syntax like that
> below.  However, this example produces a parser error:
>
> can't find string "CODE" anywhere before EOF
>
> Any ideas how I can get this to work?  I posted this on the merb group
> as well, but I suspect it's really an erb issue:
>
>  <%= code "java", <<-CODE
>
>        // create a panel using a GridBagLayout
>        JPanel panel = new JPanel (new GridBagLayout());
>
>        // three labels on the first row
>        panel.add (new JLabel ("One"));
>        panel.add (new JLabel ("Two"));
>        panel.add (new JLabel ("Threeeee"));
>
>  CODE %>

Make that
CODE
%>

IOW, place the %> on the next line.

> If I can get this to work it would be a really cool technique for
> writing HTML helper functions.

HTML helper functions in Java in an ERB template?  How does this work?

Cheers

robert

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