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Ruby

Tracy Bowen
Tracy Bowen
8,526 Points

Embedding instance variables

Let's greet the user, as we did before, but this time using an ERB template. Set up views/hello.erb to output "Hello" followed by the contents of the @name instance variable

3 Answers

<%= "Hello" + @name %>

this doesnt work for me, any other suggestions?

oh sorry! i didnt see the second file page, i was attempting to write my code all on one page. thanks!

Muhammad sharifi
Muhammad sharifi
4,455 Points

at hello.rb it should look like this get "/greet/:name" do # YOUR CODE HERE @name = params[:name] end and hello.erb shoud look like this <%= "Hello" + @name %>