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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 31, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-erb-or-erb-html/110861 "2007-07-31T16:40:54Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-erb-or-erb-html/110861/1 "2007-07-31T16:40:54Z")
Railsters:
The wave of the future, for view file names, is \*.html.erb , with the
target type on the left and the templating system on the right.
Right?
Or is \*.erb.html also optional?
We are looking at a template system that seems to register both
extensions. Should it do that? Is that optional?
One of them doesn’t seem to work!
–
Phlip
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**Author:**  [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-erb-or-erb-html/110861/2 "2007-07-31T16:48:56Z")
On 8/1/07, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> We are looking at a template system that seems to register both
> extensions. Should it do that? Is that optional?
>
> One of them doesn’t seem to work!
>
> –
> Phlip
The general form of this should be
name.format.template\_engine
format is the .html, xml, js, rss etc
template\_engine is erb, haml, builder etc
HTH
Daniel