从Ruby on Rails块输出代码而无需关闭ruby标签

Question

Ok this may seem stupid and I have googled extensively using various different keywords and terms, attempted a lot of various different methods and tried to my very last breadth and cannot seem to figure out how to do this. All I want is stdout in a rails app without needing to break my block.

Currently, when I do a block of ruby code in my rails app and want to output the value I do the following

<% somearray do | item | %>
    <%= item %>
<% end %>

To me this is quite messy, I know coming from a PHP background it's not how one should imagine how to code in rails but coming from many different environments I like my code to look nice to me . It's very easy to encapsulate every single line with <% %> but I'd prefer my code to be my code and my mark up to be my mark up.

What I'd like, but which doesn't work, is....

<%
    somearray do | item |
        whatever item #whatever being puts or similar
    end
%>

It's solely for the aesthetics of the code and not for what it produces but for me, a very long time programmer, it means a lot and a lot of time saved when trying to see where and when code blocks begin and end.

Thanks in advance,

Jay (c0ld)

Answer 1

You can use concat . From the docs :

The preferred method of outputting text in your views is to use the <%= “text” %> eRuby syntax. .... If you absolutely must output text within a non-output code block (ie, <% %> ), you can use the concat method.

Examples

 <% concat "hello" # is the equivalent of <%= "hello" %> if logged_in concat "Logged in!" else concat link_to('login', :action => login) end # will either display "Logged in!" or a login link %> 

Answer 2

What about...

<%= somearray.map {|item| item }.join(" ") %>

PS of course if item just outputs itself - it can be even shorter