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Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Just Use ERB

Understand the advantages of using ERB as the default templating mechanism in Rails. Explore how ERB’s stability, widespread HTML knowledge, and minimal dependencies support sustainable app development and easier maintenance compared to alternatives like HAML or Slim.

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Templating mechanism in Rails

The default templating mechanism in Rails is HTML using ERB (which we will refer to simply as ERB even though ERB is a general templating system that can template anything). Some developers strongly believe ERB to be problematic and seek to use alternatives like ...