Thanks, Colin! I'd like to give the user the flexibility to make a template that interpolates objects within it. Sort of like a mail merge. The templates are stored as text entries in a database. The idea is, say you have something like this as a text entry in the database
Dear Mr. <%= @person.lastname %>, We understand that your favorite programming language is <%= @person.language %>. Then, if the user was accessing the person show form for @person 2 with lastname Smith and language Ruby, it would display Dear Mr. Smith, We understand that your favorite programming language is Ruby. I am so open to ideas :) Right now I'm imagining building an XML parser, and identifying the fields as tags, then replacing them with the appropriate objects, but I was wondering if there was a more direct (or better) way. Again, thanks, Craig On Feb 27, 11:43 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 February 2010 16:30, Dudebot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, here's what I have in app/views/molds/show.html.erb: > > > <tr><td><%= @mold.body.gsub( "\n", "<br />" ) %></td></tr> > > > The controller finds @patient, and @patient.id = 2 > > > If @mold.body = "The patients id is <%= @patient.id %>" > > > Then the view displays > > > The patients id is <%= @patient.id %> > > > rather than > > > The patients id is 2 > > I don't think many of the readers have actually worked out what you > are asking. That is, if I am correct, have a string produced by a > controller where the string includes the literal text <%= .. %> and > have this interpolated somehow in the view. Perhaps if you were to > explain why you are trying to achieve this someone may suggest a > better way of solving the problem. Are the strings containing <%= .. > %> stored in the db for example? > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
