Q:

How to convert HTML/asp code into ruby string

Is there any way to easily convert HTML/asp code into a format so that it can be used as a string?
So, like there is some HTML/asp code, and I want to use this as string in ruby code. Is there any way to convert the HTML code into ruby string format?
Or is there anyway I can make the string of the ruby code to reference some HTML/asp file?
Edit: No, what I want to do is, I have some HTML code in HTML file, and I want to use it exactly as a string in ruby code. 
For example, 
I have code like   blahblah  and asp stuffs 
Then I want to use the exact code as similar to this:
var = The code above.
But HTML/ASP code will have special characters that will make it hard to embed as a string. So is there any way to use the whole chunk as a string without encountering problem?

A:

This retrieves a web page and stores it into a string:
require 'open-uri'
html = open('http://www.example.com').read
puts html[0, 60]

Which outputs:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Example Domain</title>

