Tiltout is a small abstraction over Tilt that allows you to render templates with some additional conveniences:
- Layouts
- Helper modules
- Caching
Let's say we have a template, ~/projects/tiltout/templates/greet.erb:
<h1><%= @title = greet("Hey", name) %></h1>And another template, ~/projects/tiltout/templates/layout.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><%= @title %></title>
</head>
<body>
<%= yield %>
</body>
</html>Then the following code:
require "tiltout"
module Greeter
def greet(greeting, name)
"#{greeting} #{name}!"
end
end
out = Tiltout.new("~/projects/tiltout/templates", :layout => "layout")
out.helper(Greeter, { :name => "Chris" })
html = out.render(:greet)Will produce the following HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hey Chris!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hey Chris!</h1>
</body>
</html>Tiltout can be instantiated with a default layout that will be used for every
template. You can also optionally override the layout for each individual
template to render.
Layouts are rendered with the same context as templates, and are rendered after the template itself. This means that you can set instance variables in the template that can be used in the layout (useful for e.g. extra head data, title etc).
Templates are included in the layout where the layout yields, e.g.:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title><%= @title %></title>
</head>
<body>
<%= yield %>
</body>
</html>Given the following template:
<h1><%= @title = "Hey!" %></h1>The following output would be produced:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hey!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hey!</h1>
</body>
</html>Tiltout provides a convenient API for registering modules that are included in
the rendering context so you can call the module's methods as "helpers" from
your templates:
<!-- greet.erb -->
<h1>Hey <%= snake_case(name) %></h1>require "tiltout"
module SnakeCaser
def snake_case(text)
text.gsub(/(.)([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').downcase
end
end
out = Tiltout.new("path/to/templates")
out.helper(SnakeCaser)
out.render(:greet, { :name => "ChrisJohansen" })
#=> "<h1>Hey chris_johansen</h1>"By default, Tiltout will cache your templates after reading them from file the
first time. If you don't want caching - say because you're actively developing
the template - you simply disable it when instantiating your Tiltout instance:
out = Tiltout.new("path/to/templates", :cache => false)tiltout ships as a gem:
$ gem install tiltout
Or in your Gemfile:
gem "tiltout", "~> 1.0.0"
Contributions are welcome. To get started:
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/gitorious/tiltout.git
$ cd tiltout
$ bundle install
$ rake
When you have fixed a bug/added a feature/done your thing, create a clone on Gitorious or a fork on GitHub and send a merge request/pull request, whichever you prefer.
Please add tests when adding/altering code, and always make sure all the tests pass before submitting your contribution.
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