eruby tags nesting?

Question

I'm currently hosted on a Mediatemple gridserver. I'm writing a site to teach myself Ruby - straight ruby, no rails. I've run into a few errors that appear to be a result of nested tags. For example:

eruby requires <% %> tags around ruby code. If I try to use erb templating I'm stuffed -

<%
template = ERB.new <<-EOF
  The value of x is: <%= x %>
EOF
%>

This obviously won't work because of the nested <% %> tags. I think I'm running into a similar issue with the CGI class. Is there a way to alter the tags used for either erb or eruby? Or is there an easy way around this I'm totally missing?

Answer 1

You probably don't want to use both erb and eruby. You should make the eruby (or erb) from a ruby cgi script.

require "cgi"
require "erb"

x = 42
template = ERB.new <<-EOF
  The value of x is <%= x %>
EOF

cgi = CGI.new
cgi.out { template.result }