Object templates in Ruby- March 9, 2005 The concept of templates are very common in many contexts of programming. A boiler-plate representation of something can be turned into a concrete instance by supplying some extra data. The important point is that the supplied data can vary, and that has an impact on the structure of the concrete instance of the template. In HTML programming, common template techniques are JSP, PHP, ERB and ASP. By passing some extra data to a template engine, a template can be turned into an HTML page that..http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/rinkrank/archives/001001_object_templates_in_ruby.html |