Allow ERB templating in combination with Eco templates

[jonhyman]

A lot of my Eco templates in Rails have an image in them. Ideally, I'd love to name my file template.js.eco.erb and be able to use <%= image_tag ... %>. However, due to the template syntax being the same, this won't work.

Is there a recommended way to do this? Should I switch off ERB to Haml or some other templating engine?

[mattiassvedhem]

I've also been wanting to do this, but never got to looking any closer at it. For now, I just pass down the URL when rendering the templates. It works, but doesn't feel quite right.

[mateusmaso]

+1 same problem here.. would like to use <%= asset_path ... %> tags but isn't possible yet. Some workaround is to name the file jst.erb.eco and use <%%= asset_path ... %> instead, but as @yeggeps said it doesnt feel right.

[sos4nt]

The file ending should be .eco.erb. Everything within <% %> is handled by ERB, whereas everything within <%% %> is handled by Eco:

<%= image_tag('icon.png') %>
<%%= @eco_variable %>

This is because ERB replaces <%% with <% which is then processed by Eco as usual.

[mattiassvedhem]

Awesome @sos4nt will try that. Thanks.

[dougvk]

what if I wanted to do something like

<%= text_field_tag 'title', '<%%= @title %>' %>

currently this doesn't work