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= Action View
+Action View is a framework for handling view template lookup and rendering, and provides
+view helpers that assist when building HTML forms, Atom feeds and more.
+Template formats that Action View handles are ERB (embedded Ruby, typically
+used to inline short Ruby snippets inside HTML), and XML Builder.
+
== Download and installation
The latest version of Action View can be installed with RubyGems: