String Manipulation in Embedded Ruby

Question

So I have embedded Ruby in HTML, and I need to declare a new variable which will be a manipulated version of the old variable. For instance, in

<%= newfood = food%>

if food = "AB&CSoup", I'd want the string to become "ABCSoup". After declaring the new variable in embedded ruby brackets, how can I remove the ampersand?

Answer 1

Try with delete method

<%= newfood = food.delete('&') %>

Answer 2

<% newfood = food %>
<% newfood.gsub!('&','') %>