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

You can use it with your local variables, like this:

@animal = "Dog"
@action = "licks"
@second_animal = "Bird"

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

the output would be: "The Dog licks the Bird"