The only way I would think you can do it is by reading the template
file into a variable in your controller and in your view escaping the
string.

Not pretty.

Pepe

On May 19, 3:45 pm, Tim Conner <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a partial (_contact.html) which looks something like this
>
> <script id="contact_template" type="text/html">
>   <h2><%= contact.name %></h2>
>   <p><%= contact.id %></p>
> </script>
>
> I want to render this to the view exactly as it is show there.  I don't
> want the erb tags evaluating.  When I try and render this using:
> render :partial => 'contact.html'
>
> I get an error because it is trying to evaluate the erb tags and call
> the name method on the non-existent contact object.  I simply want to
> render the text, as it is written, to the view.  How can I do this?
>
> The reason for it is that I am investigating ways of JSON templating
> (http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-micro-templating/).  I am ultimately
> aiming to make some of my partials reuseable between the rails code and
> the javascript code so that I only have to maintain them in one place.
> I want to carry on using <%= %> in the JSON templates.  How can I tell
> rails just to render the partial as text and not try to evaluate it?
> Thanks
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