Problem using OpenStruct with ERB

Question

EDIT: forgot to include my environment info... Win7x64, RubyInstaller Ruby v1.9.1-p378

EDIT 2: just updated to v1.9.1, patch 429, a

Answer 1

Fix to Problem:

I stumbled upon this question when encountering the same type of error with similar code in Ruby 1.9.2.

I'm new to Ruby so I can't explain what is happening. I continued to search online and found this blog post that has an approach that seems to work. After modifying your example to incorporate this approach I end up with the following, working, code:

require 'ostruct'
require 'erb'

class ErbBinding < OpenStruct
    def get_binding
        return binding()
    end
end

data = {:bar => "baz"}
vars = ErbBinding.new(data)

template = "foo <%= bar %>"
erb = ERB.new(template)

vars_binding = vars.send(:get_binding)
puts erb.result(vars_binding)

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Additional Information:

_{When the code is run thru the IRB, I get:}

require 'ostruct'
=> true
require 'erb'
=> true

class ErbBinding < OpenStruct
    def get_binding
        return binding()
    end
end
=> nil

data = {:bar => "baz"}
=> {:bar=>"baz"}
vars = ErbBinding.new(data)
=> #

template = "foo <%= bar %>"
=> "foo <%= bar %>"
erb = ERB.new(template)
=> #, @filename=nil>

vars_binding = vars.send(:get_binding)
=> #
puts erb.result(vars_binding)
foo baz
=> nil