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#Basic ERB

ERB is an important tool that we use to generate HTML. This exercise is the same as generating HTML strings with one twist; you use ERB to get to the solutions instead of doing it all yourself. You should find that you have to write less code, with less ifs to solve the same problems. You should also find that the string representing the HTML we want to produce is much more readable. ERB does a lot of the heavy lifting.

• More class/object practice
• Using a library (gem) to do work for us
• More practice with getting tests green
• Beginning to look at inheritance. HTMLGenerator inherits from ERBGenerator. HTMLGenerator inherits the erb method from ERBGenerator
• Passing hashes as arguments to methods. Notice how you can drop the {} if it's the last argument!

Follow the tests! Remember to remove the skip method call to move on to the next test.