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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-include-an-html-file/71532 "2006-02-21T20:38:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-include-an-html-file/71532/1 "2006-02-21T20:38:42Z")
> Other then that though you could simple open the file and
> spit the results manually. So, a simple helper function:
>
> def include\_page(file\_name)
> result = “”
> File.open(file\_name, “r”) { |f| result \<\< f.read }
> result
> end
That can be shortened to:
def include\_page(file\_name)
IO.read(file\_name)
end
Regards,
Dan
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**Author:**  [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-include-an-html-file/71532/2 "2006-02-21T20:54:24Z")
Of course it can! 🙂
Thanks for that, there seems to always be a ‘shorter’ way in ruby!
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**Author:**  [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-include-an-html-file/71532/3 "2006-02-21T21:01:55Z")
Thanx guys!
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**Author:**  [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-to-include-an-html-file/71532/4 "2006-02-22T05:23:57Z")
OR:
\<%= render :file =\> ‘/absolute/full/path/to/file’ %\>
And that will interpret any erb thats in the file as well.
Cheers-
-Ezra