try something like this:
cat a.erb
<%
datacenter="Moon"
description="less heating expanses here"
%>
{ "config" :
{
"datacenter":"<%= datacenter %>"
"description":"<%= description %>"
}
}
erb a.erb
{ "config" :
{
"datacenter":"Moon"
"description":"less heating expanses here"
}
}
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Pete Emerson <pemer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm unfortunately ruby ignorant, here's what I've tried:
>
> My file test.erb:
>
> { "config" :
> {
> "datacenter":"<%= datacenter %>"
> }
> }
>
> I'll change that to populate the datacenter variable:
>
> $datacenter = 'hello'
> { "config" :
> {
> "datacenter":"<%= datacenter %>"
> }
> }
>
> and then run ruby:
>
> $ ruby test.erb
> test.erb:2: syntax error
> test.erb:4: syntax error
> "datacenter":"<%= datacenter %>"
> ^
> test.erb:5: syntax error
>
> I'm missing something simple either in my test.erb or the way I run
> ruby on it, or both.
>
> Pete
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Trevor Vaughan<peiriann...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I usually just copy the erb, set the variables at the top and then run
> it.
> >
> > Not too elegant, but it works for testing.
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 14:41, Pete Emerson<pemer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> According to http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetTemplating
> >>
> >> I can do this for template syntax checking:
> >>
> >> erb -x -T '-' mytemplate.erb | ruby -c
> >>
> >> Is there a way to feed ruby values for the variables inside the
> >> template and see what the file will look like on a target machine?
> >>
> >> Pete
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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