how to concatenate javascript and rails 3

Question

I have the following code in my application.erb.html $alertdiv.text("some message"); but I need to pass in message instead of hard coded message. I need to pass in the notice so I tried doing something like $alertdiv.text(<%= notice %>); but that didn't work

Answer 1

You still need to wrap the <%= %> tags in quotation marks:

$alertdiv.text("<%= notice %>");