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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 15, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557 "2007-09-15T06:46:57Z")\
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**Author:**  [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557/1 "2007-09-15T06:46:57Z")
Hi all,
I’m trying to do a quick dump of a javascript and style sheet located in
their respective /public directories into an rhtml file. I want to
include the entire text of the file in my rhtml file. How do I do this
quickly and efficiently? In PHP there’s readfile, but I can’t figure out
an equivalent call in ruby.
Thanks so much in advance!
Tim
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**Author:**  [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557/2 "2007-09-17T13:25:16Z")
Tim Trampedach wrote in message ne\
> I’m trying to do a quick dump of a javascript and style sheet located in
> their respective /public directories into an rhtml file.
\<%=h File.read(RAILS\_ROOT + ‘/public/javascript/my\_source.js’) %\>
This is half introductory Ruby and half introductory Rails, so one might
consider reading a little of the excellent books on these subjects,
offline,
for a while!
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**Author:**  [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557/3 "2007-09-25T23:03:53Z")
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:24:59PM +0900, James B. wrote:
> better, faster, information.
> While Philip may have assumed that Tim was using Rails, there was
> nothing
> in the original post to indicate that Rails is involved. It’s just ERB
> to
> produce HTML (in this case with embedded JS and CSS), which comes up in
> other contexts.
> James B.
> –Greg
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**Author:**  [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557/4 "2007-09-25T23:09:16Z")
Gregory S. wrote:
> While Philip may have assumed that Tim was using Rails, there was nothing
> in the original post to indicate that Rails is involved. It’s just ERB to
> produce HTML (in this case with embedded JS and CSS), which comes up in
> other contexts.
Amazingly true.
My reply was to suggest a better place for Rails help if this was in
fact part of a Rails matter.
–
James B.
“I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion
out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be
solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!”
- Edsger Dijkstra
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**Author:**  [@2tcreative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/2tcreative)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/source-a-javascript-and-stylesheet-into-rhtml-file/114557/5 "2007-09-25T23:09:50Z")
Phlip wrote:
> Tim Trampedach wrote in message ne\
>
> > I’m trying to do a quick dump of a javascript and style sheet located in
> > their respective /public directories into an rhtml file.
>
> \<%=h File.read(RAILS\_ROOT + ‘/public/javascript/my\_source.js’) %\>
>
> This is half introductory Ruby and half introductory Rails, so one might
> consider reading a little of the excellent books on these subjects,
> offline, for a while!
Rails questions are better directed to Rails mailing list, where you’ll
get better, faster, information.
–
James B.
“Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.”
- Voltaire