Rails with Underscore.js Templates

Question

I was trying to use underscore.js templates for templating in a rails 2.3 app which does not have jammit as an asset packager.

Here is the simple Templa

Answer 1

If you don't want to change the template settings across your entire project...

Escape the ERB tags: <%= becomes <%%=

Note that the closing tag is still %>, not %%>.

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Side note - I also tried outputting using a heredoc. The following code runs successfully but outputs a bunch of erb source code that gets caught between the heredoc commands.