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Ruby equivalent of PHP's “.=” (dot equals) operator
I want to create a variable include_items and keep on adding strings to it.
In PHP it would be…
$include_items = "<td>first item</td>";
$include_items .= "<td>second item</td>";
$include_items .= "<td>third item</td>";
try
<<and see how that works. You can also use+=, but that creates extra objects unnecessarily.