# Displaying ruby code in a view

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/displaying-ruby-code-in-a-view/69807>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [November 4, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/displaying-ruby-code-in-a-view/69807 "2014-11-04T01:23:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Kacerguis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Chris\_Kacerguis](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Chris_Kacerguis)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/displaying-ruby-code-in-a-view/69807/1 "2014-11-04T01:23:48Z")

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Hello All,

I’m pretty new to Rails / Ruby development, so please bear with me if this is a RTFM question.

I’m trying to output ruby snippets (snippets are stored in a file) in my view, but erb/rails keeps trying to parse the code. Is there any way I can get Rails to not to parse the Ruby and just output it as text?

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance for any advice / direction.

Chris

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**Author:** ![Frederick\_Cheung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/frederick_cheung/32/3901_2.png) [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/displaying-ruby-code-in-a-view/69807/2 "2014-11-04T10:39:27Z")

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if it’s not in \<% tags then it should be output as is (although you may need to escape it to stop the browser interpreting as malformed html - depending on how you are including these snippets this might be done automatically)

Fred