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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra ERB Templates Embedding Instance Variables

alexx1000
alexx1000
16,187 Points
Posted by alexx1000
alexx1000
16,187 Points

In hello.rb, in the get route for the "/greet/:name" path, set the @name instance variable to equal the contents of the

Sorry, I'm new here and don't know how to use the different features. I'm confused about what code I should put in this challenge. I hope you can see the question and my ugly code lol Can you please help me? Thanks!! :)

hello.rb 
require "sinatra"

get "/greet/:name" do
  @name = params[:name]
  erb :views
end
views/hello.erb 
<p><%= @name = "Hello" %></p>

2 Answers

AJ Tran
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AJ Tran
Treehouse Teacher
AJ Tran
AJ Tran
Treehouse Teacher

ERB is a funny beast, it looks like you got one answer!

This will work the same too:

<p>Hello <%= @name %></p>
alexx1000
alexx1000
16,187 Points
alexx1000
alexx1000
16,187 Points

Got the right answer: <p><%= "Hello" + @name %></p>

LOL :)