You may also want to check out Liquid for a safer way of doing templates: http://www.liquidmarkup.org/
Jarin Udom Robot Mode LLC On Feb 27, 1:15 pm, Dudebot <[email protected]> wrote: > Found it. Use #{}, eval and '"' > > e.g. foo = '#{ bar }' > then eval( '"' + foo + '"' ) will interpolate bar > > Freshmeat has a great write-up on templates in Ruby > athttp://freshmeat.net/articles/templates-in-ruby, including other > approaches > > Needless to say, this code is *not safe*. A user can run anything in > that eval. In my application, only trusted users have access to > building templates. > > We love Ruby :) > Craig > > On Feb 27, 1:17 pm, Dudebot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm no expert at Rails, Craig, but I've been writing working Rails > > code for about 8 months now on more than a few projects. I've read > > Agile Development more than once, and have over the course of time > > watched scores of Rails webcasts. > > > If you have a solution to my question, I'd appreciate it. I don't > > think you understand the question. I need the user to generate their > > own templates. If I was hard coding all the templates for them, this > > would be cake. > > > On Feb 27, 12:47 pm, Craig White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Craig > > > > -- > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > > believed to be clean. -- 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.
