Ruby: Merging variables in to a string

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The idiomatic way is to write something like this:

"The #{animal} #{action} the #{second_animal}"

Note the double quotes (“) surrounding the string: this is the trigger for Ruby to use its built-in placeholder substitution. You cannot replace them with single quotes (‘) or the string will be kept as is.

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