Generating webpages with Ruby... help with double quotes

Ruby
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I want a program that I’m working on to generate some web pages for me,
but I’m having trouble with generating the pages in HTML, since it uses
the double quotes for links, as in .

Since there are a lot of the links in this page, I need to know what the
best way to get around this problem is. Can someone help me, please?

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You can just use single quotes. So
string= ‘.’

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Zoe P.
[email protected]
wrote:

I want a program that I’m working on to generate some web pages for me,
but I’m having trouble with generating the pages in HTML, since it uses
the double quotes for links, as in .

Since there are a lot of the links in this page, I need to know what the
best way to get around this problem is. Can someone help me, please?

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Reuben Doetsch

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On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Zoe P. wrote:

I want a program that I’m working on to generate some web pages for
me,
but I’m having trouble with generating the pages in HTML, since it
uses
the double quotes for links, as in .

Since there are a lot of the links in this page, I need to know what
the
best way to get around this problem is. Can someone help me, please?

The are a few different ways to construct your HTML output:

%q(

your html code goes here)

%Q(

just another form that supports #{variable} expansion)

<<-HTML

and the big daddy of them all -- the heredoc format

this will create a single string from the all the text found between the opening <<-HTML marker above and the closing HTML marker below

you can use any uppercase string to mark your heredoc

heredocs also support #{variable} substitution

hope that helps

Blessings,
TwP

HTML
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 12:09 +0900, Zoe P. wrote:

I want a program that I’m working on to generate some web pages for me,
but I’m having trouble with generating the pages in HTML, since it uses
the double quotes for links, as in .

Since there are a lot of the links in this page, I need to know what the
best way to get around this problem is. Can someone help me, please?

Strings have a large number of different representations for precisely
this reason:

    "<a href=\"http://www.blahblahblah.com\">"  # double-quoted

strings do interpolation and have a lot of -escapes.
‘’ # single-quoted
strings don’t do interpolation and only -escape \ and '.
%q{} # same as a
single-quoted string, but ’ isn’t special
%q|| # the delimiter
doesn’t have to be braces
%Q{} # same as
double-quoted-string, but " isn’t special

Then there’s “here documents” and the like, and there’s other variants
of these in the facets gem. Pick and choose the representation that
suits your needs best. (In your case I’d likely recommend %Q{string
here}, %Q(string here) or even %Q|string here|.)