Rendering a partial without evaluating the erb tags

Rails
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Hi,
I have a partial (_contact.html) which looks something like this

I want to render this to the view exactly as it is show there. I don’t
want the erb tags evaluating. When I try and render this using:
render :partial => ‘contact.html’

I get an error because it is trying to evaluate the erb tags and call
the name method on the non-existent contact object. I simply want to
render the text, as it is written, to the view. How can I do this?

The reason for it is that I am investigating ways of JSON templating
(John Resig - JavaScript Programming). I am ultimately
aiming to make some of my partials reuseable between the rails code and
the javascript code so that I only have to maintain them in one place.
I want to carry on using <%= %> in the JSON templates. How can I tell
rails just to render the partial as text and not try to evaluate it?
Thanks

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The only way I would think you can do it is by reading the template
file into a variable in your controller and in your view escaping the
string.

Not pretty.

Pepe

On May 19, 3:45 pm, Tim C. [email protected]

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2009/5/20 pepe [email protected]

The only way I would think you can do it is by reading the template
file into a variable in your controller and in your view escaping the
string.

Not pretty.

Pepe

I think that having once read the template file into a variable in the
controller it can be displayed without escaping in the view. The string
will not be parsed as erb

Colin