Rails - Jan 2007 - How to add to string a large text with single and double quotes

I''m sure there must be an easier way to add a large text to a string
variable than doing

temp_string = ''''a very large text"

For example my text is:

    var badge = '''';
    badge += ''<div class="upb_date"><span
class="upb_text">Jan
8</span></div>'';
    badge += ''<div class="upb_event"
id="upcoming_badge_1"><span
class="upb_title upb_text"><a
href="http://upcoming.org/event/80128/">COMSWARE 2007 HE SECOND
IEEE/Create-Net/...</a></span>'';
    badge += '' <span class="upb_venue upb_text">@ <a
href="http://upcoming.org/venue/25891/">NOT YET
DECIDED</a></span>'';
    badge += ''</div>'';
    document.write(badge);


I want all that in a variable @badge_text. How do I do that easily?

Thanks

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You can use straight Ruby for this.  String has a "here" document.
Itworks liek this:

badge = <<MY_TEXT_END
  <div class="upb_date"><span
class="upb_text">Jan 8</span></div>
  <div class="upb_event" id="upcoming_badge_1">
   <span class="upb_title upb_text">
      <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/80128/">
        COMSWARE 2007 HE SECOND IEEE/Create-Net/...
      </a>
   </span>
   <span class="upb_venue upb_text">@
      <a href="http://upcoming.org/venue/25891/">
        NOT YET DECIDED
      </a>
   </span>
</div>
MY_TEXT_END

badge now has all of this, with all single and double qoutes escaped
with a ''\'' character.  Note that new lines are preserved in
the string
as ''\n''.

For all other info, check out "String" in
http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_stdtypes.html

Bart


Neeraj Kumar wrote:
> I''m sure there must be an easier way to add a large text to a
string
> variable than doing
>
> temp_string = ''''a very large text"
>
> For example my text is:
>
>     var badge = '''';
>     badge += ''<div class="upb_date"><span
class="upb_text">Jan
> 8</span></div>'';
>     badge += ''<div class="upb_event"
id="upcoming_badge_1"><span
> class="upb_title upb_text"><a
> href="http://upcoming.org/event/80128/">COMSWARE 2007 HE
SECOND
> IEEE/Create-Net/...</a></span>'';
>     badge += '' <span class="upb_venue upb_text">@
<a
> href="http://upcoming.org/venue/25891/">NOT YET
DECIDED</a></span>'';
>     badge += ''</div>'';
>     document.write(badge);
>
>
> I want all that in a variable @badge_text. How do I do that easily?
> 
> Thanks

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