Question

I have a “skeleton file” and specific areas for variables and I am trying to open that file, apply those variables and then save the file to another file.

Any idea of where I could start, I got file opening and writing down pat, but I am confused on the variable part.

Answer 1

Are you trying to invent ERB? 🙂

Let’s suppose you have this file (skeleton.erb)

Hello, <%= name %>

Then this code

template = ERB.new(File.read("skeleton.erb"))
name = "Vasya"
puts template.result(binding)

will print this

Hello, Vasya