Ruby: Merging variables in to a string

Question

I\'m looking for a better way to merge variables into a string, in Ruby.

For example if the string is something like:

\"The animal action<

Answer 1

This is called string interpolation, and you do it like this:

"The #{animal} #{action} the #{second_animal}"

Important: it will only work when string is inside double quotes (" ").

Example of code that will not work as you expect:

'The #{animal} #{action} the #{second_animal}'