HandlebarWax is a gem to let you easily share mustache templates between your server-side and client-side code.
On the server, HandlebarWax uses code borrowed from handlebars-rails to support +..hbs+ as a template type (think foo.html.erb, foo.html.haml, foo.html.hbs). These work pretty much exactly like you would expect they should.
For the client side, HandlebarWax writes all your templates into public/javascripts/handlebars_templates.js, for you to use in your JavaScript code.
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Add it to your gemfile.
gem "handlebar_wax"
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Add it to your layout (it’s important that
:handlebar_waxbe a symbol, not a string)= javascript_include_tag :handlebar_wax
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Create view files.
(app/views/users/_user.html.hbs) <h1>{{greeting}}, {{user/name}}!</h1> -
Render views from rails. Note that in MustacheWax, hbs templates understand both assigns and locals.
- @user = User.first = render :partial => 'users/user', :locals => {:greeting => "Hello"} -
Render views from JavaScript
HandlebarWax('users/_user', {user: {name: "Why"}, greeting: "Frabjous Day"})
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Steven Soroka (ssoroka) for pub-based discussion about this, and initial mustache_wax code
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Yehuda Katz and Jamesarosen for handlebars-rails, which this project includes in its entirety, with very few modifications as of yet.
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Yehuda Katz (yes, twice) for the wonderful Handlebars.js.
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I’m all ears. Shoot me an email or a PM.
Copyright © 2011 Burke Libbey. See LICENSE.txt for further details.