On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 10:12 -0800, Dudebot wrote: > 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. ---- I think you need to start with another rails beginner tutorial because this is very beginner stuff and easily accomplished just as you said and without any need for xml parsers or sophisticated methods at all.
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