From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-04-24T18:08:46+09:00
Subject: Re: gem-packed script with DATA section does not work

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Wybo Dekker <wybo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2012-04-24 10:53, Xavier Noria wrote:
>> I you don't need the BEGIN block nor constants, I think you could just use some ordirary heredocs or some other conventional Ruby idiom.
>
> sure, but as said in my initial mail, it's not very elegant to clog a
> script with large blocks of erb templates...

I agree to Xavier, it's not such a big difference.  Just do

# single quotes are important!
MY_DATA = <<'DAT'
doc is here
DAT

And if you place it at the end of the script you have pretty much the
same as with __END__ - plus, you can even define more documents that
way.  You could also do

MY_DATA = %q{
doc is here
}

MY_DATA = %q[
doc is here
]

etc.

Kind regards

robert

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