For a simple solution, use OpenStruct: require ‘erb’ require ‘ostruct’ namespace = OpenStruct.new(name: ‘Joan’, last: ‘Maragall’) template=”Name: <%= name %> <%= last %>” result = ERB.new(template).result(namespace.instance_eval { binding }) #=> Name: Joan Maragall The code above is simple enough but has (at least) two problems: 1) Since it relies on OpenStruct, an access to a … Read more
You’re trying to use render from assets. Unfortunately, it isn’t possible now, look at this.
As far as i know there is no way to do it directly and the reason is fairly simple too, html is executed at the server side and javascript is a client side language which means its executed in your local browser, thats why if you even try to pass a variable between the two … Read more
Try using raw(somePost.content). Alternatively, somePost.content.html_safe.
<% %> Executes the ruby code within the brackets. <%= %> Prints something into erb file. <%== %> Equivalent to <%= raw %>. Prints something verbatim (i.e. w/o escaping) into erb file. (Taken from Ruby on Rails Guides.) <% -%> Avoids line break after expression. <%# %> Comments out code within brackets; not sent to … Read more
I think it bears repeating: html_safe does not HTML-escape your string. In fact, it will prevent your string from being escaped. <%= “<script>alert(‘Hello!’)</script>” %> will put: <script>alert('Hello!')</script> into your HTML source (yay, so safe!), while: <%= “<script>alert(‘Hello!’)</script>”.html_safe %> will pop up the alert dialog (are you sure that’s what you want?). So you probably don’t … Read more