Contact form in ruby, sinatra, and haml

Question

I\'m new to all three, and I\'m trying to write a simple contact form for a website. The code I have come up with is below, but I know there are some fundamental problems with

Answer 1

#{} is interpolation that is used inside "". Just using it outside for a variable assignment won't work.

It would be more likely to be used like this:

number_of_people = 15 

Puts "There are #{number_of_people} scheduled tonight"