# Stupid questions about erb **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 28, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stupid-questions-about-erb/172790 "2009-07-28T02:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stupid-questions-about-erb/172790/1 "2009-07-28T02:45:57Z")
I have been trying to find these answers in Google, but not getting any clarity. I am writing in Rails 2.3.2 but have always lived in a 1.2.x world. In the 1.2.x world, putting this in an rhtml file would always render properly for both screen & print… \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag ‘reports\_print.css’ %\> In current erb file, screen is rendered properly but not print. How do I designate it to use the public/stylesheets/reports\_print.css for both screen and print now? Craig – This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---
**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stupid-questions-about-erb/172790/2 "2009-07-28T03:28:06Z")
Hello Craig: \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag ‘reports\_print’, :media =\> :all %\> will generate: See examples in the documentation: [http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.3.1/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#M002343](http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.3.1/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#M002343) Cheers, Nicholas ---
**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stupid-questions-about-erb/172790/3 "2009-07-28T03:50:20Z")
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 18:26 -0700, Nicholas H. wrote: > [http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.3.1/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#M002343](http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.3.1/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#M002343) * * * yes, thanks. I think the commented lines were my 1.2.x style and I had already found that and for some strange reason, that particular report formatted print the same as screen. But better to make it predictable and follow the rules. I think that I don’t understand the differences between erb files and rhtml files and before I write a bunch of view files, it would be nice to understand the differences. Does anyone have a link to a page that explains the differences between rhtml and erb? Craig – This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---
**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stupid-questions-about-erb/172790/4 "2009-07-28T04:01:28Z")
Hello Craig, There’s no difference between rhtml and erb, it was a change in naming conventions: “We’ve separated the format of the template from its rendering engine. So show.rhtml now becomes show.html.erb, which is the template that’ll be rendered by default for a show action that has declared format.html in its respond\_to. And you can now have something like show.csv.erb, which targets text/csv, but also uses the default ERB renderer.” > **[Rails 2.0: It's done!](https://rubyonrails.org/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done)** > > Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. We’ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the... Cheers, Nicholas