I must be overlooking something very simple here but I can't seem to figure out how to render a simple ERB template with values from a hash-map.
I am relatively new to ruby, coming from python. I have an ERB template (not HTML), which I need rendered with context that's to be taken from a hash-map, which I receive from an external source.
However, the documentation of ERB, states that the ERB.result
method takes a binding
. I learnt that they are something that hold the variable contexts in ruby (something like locals()
and globals()
in python, I presume?). But, I don't know how I can build a binding object out of my hash-map.
A little (a lot, actually) googling gave me this: http://refactormycode.com/codes/281-given-a-hash-of-variables-render-an-erb-template, which uses some ruby metaprogramming magic that escapes me.
So, isn't there a simple solution to this problem? Or is there a better templating engine (not tied to HTML) better suited for this? (I only chose ERB because its in the stdlib).