Tilt is a thin interface over a bunch of different Ruby template engines in an attempt to make their usage as generic as possible. This is useful for web frameworks, static site generators, and other systems that support multiple template engines but don't want to code for each of them individually.
The following features are supported for all template engines (assuming the feature is relevant to the engine):
The primary goal is to get all of the things listed above right for all template engines included in the distribution.
Support for these template engines is included with the package:
Engine File Extensions Required Libraries Maintainer Asciidoctor .ad, .adoc, .asciidoc asciidoctor (>= 0.1.0) Community ERB .erb, .rhtml none (included ruby stdlib) Tilt team InterpolatedString .str none (included ruby core) Tilt team Erubi .erb, .rhtml, .erubi erubi Community Erubis .erb, .rhtml, .erubis erubis Tilt team Haml .haml haml Tilt team Sass .sass sass-embedded (>= 1.0) or sassc (>=2.0) Tilt team Scss .scss sass-embedded (>= 1.0) or sassc (>=2.0) Tilt team Builder .builder builder Tilt team Liquid .liquid liquid Community RDiscount .markdown, .mkd, .md rdiscount Community Redcarpet .markdown, .mkd, .md redcarpet Community Kramdown .markdown, .mkd, .md kramdown Community Pandoc .markdown, .mkd, .md pandoc Community reStructuredText .rst pandoc Community Maruku .markdown, .mkd, .md maruku Community CommonMarker .markdown, .mkd, .md commonmarker Community RedCloth .textile redcloth Community RDoc .rdoc rdoc Tilt team Radius .radius radius Community Markaby .mab markaby Tilt team Nokogiri .nokogiri nokogiri Community CoffeeScript .coffee coffee-script (+ javascript) Tilt team CoffeeScript (literate) .litcoffee coffee-script (>= 1.5.0) (+ javascript) Tilt team LiveScript .ls livescript (+ javascript) Tilt team TypeScript .ts typescript (+ javascript) Tilt team Creole (Wiki markup) .wiki, .creole creole Community WikiCloth (Wiki markup) .wiki, .mediawiki, .mw wikicloth Community Yajl .yajl yajl-ruby Community CSV .rcsv none (included ruby stdlib) Tilt team Prawn .prawn prawn (>= 2.0.0) Community Babel .es6, .babel, .jsx babel-transpiler Tilt team Opal .rb opal CommunityEvery supported template engine has a maintainer. Note that this is the maintainer of the Tilt integration, not the maintainer of the template engine itself. The maintainer is responsible for providing an adequate integration and keeping backwards compatibility across Tilt version. Some integrations are maintained by the community, which is handled in the following way:
These template engines ship with their own Tilt integration:
Engine File Extensions Required Libraries Slim .slim slim (>= 0.7) Embedded JavaScript sprockets Embedded CoffeeScript sprockets JST sprockets Org-mode .org org-ruby (>= 0.6.2) Emacs Org .org tilt-emacs_org Handlebars .hbs, handlebars tilt-handlebars Jbuilder .jbuilder tilt-jbuilderSee TEMPLATES.md for detailed information on template engine options and supported features.
Instant gratification:
require 'erb' require 'tilt' template = Tilt.new('templates/foo.erb') => #<Tilt::ERBTemplate @file="templates/foo.erb" ...> output = template.render => "Hello world!"
It's recommended that calling programs explicitly require template engine libraries (like 'erb' above) at load time. Tilt attempts to lazy require the template engine library the first time a template is created but this is prone to error in threaded environments.
The {Tilt} module contains generic implementation classes for all supported template engines. Each template class adheres to the same interface for creation and rendering. In the instant gratification example, we let Tilt determine the template implementation class based on the filename, but {Tilt::Template} implementations can also be used directly:
require 'tilt/haml' template = Tilt::HamlTemplate.new('templates/foo.haml') output = template.render
The render
method takes an optional evaluation scope and locals hash arguments. Here, the template is evaluated within the context of the Person
object with locals x
and y
:
require 'tilt/erb' template = Tilt::ERBTemplate.new('templates/foo.erb') joe = Person.find('joe') output = template.render(joe, :x => 35, :y => 42)
If no scope is provided, the template is evaluated within the context of an object created with Object.new
.
A single Template
instance's render
method may be called multiple times with different scope and locals arguments. Continuing the previous example, we render the same compiled template but this time in jane's scope:
jane = Person.find('jane') output = template.render(jane, :x => 22, :y => nil)
Blocks can be passed to render
for templates that support running arbitrary ruby code (usually with some form of yield
). For instance, assuming the following in foo.erb
:
The block passed to render
is called on yield
:
template = Tilt::ERBTemplate.new('foo.erb') template.render { 'Joe' } # => "Hey Joe!"
The {Tilt::Mapping} class includes methods for associating template implementation classes with filename patterns and for locating/instantiating template classes based on those associations.
The {Tilt} module has a global instance of Mapping
that is populated with the table of template engines above.
The {Tilt.register} method associates a filename pattern with a specific template implementation. To use ERB for files ending in a .bar
extension:
>> Tilt.register Tilt::ERBTemplate, 'bar' >> Tilt.new('views/foo.bar') => #<Tilt::ERBTemplate @file="views/foo.bar" ...>
Retrieving the template class for a file or file extension:
>> Tilt['foo.bar'] => Tilt::ERBTemplate >> Tilt['haml'] => Tilt::HamlTemplate
Retrieving a list of template classes for a file:
>> Tilt.templates_for('foo.bar') => [Tilt::ERBTemplate] >> Tilt.templates_for('foo.haml.bar') => [Tilt::ERBTemplate, Tilt::HamlTemplate]
The template class is determined by searching for a series of decreasingly specific name patterns. When creating a new template with Tilt.new('views/foo.html.erb')
, we check for the following template mappings:
views/foo.html.erb
foo.html.erb
html.erb
erb
Tilt needs to know the encoding of the template in order to work properly:
Tilt will use Encoding.default_external
as the encoding when reading external files. If you're mostly working with one encoding (e.g. UTF-8) we highly recommend setting this option. When providing a custom reader block (Tilt.new { custom_string }
) you'll have ensure the string is properly encoded yourself.
Most of the template engines in Tilt also allows you to override the encoding using the :default_encoding
-option:
tmpl = Tilt.new('hello.erb', :default_encoding => 'Big5')
Ultimately it's up to the template engine how to handle the encoding: It might respect :default_encoding
, it might always assume it's UTF-8 (like CoffeeScript), or it can do its own encoding detection.
Tilt compiles generated Ruby source code produced by template engines and reuses it on subsequent template invocations. Benchmarks show this yields a 5x-10x performance increase over evaluating the Ruby source on each invocation.
Template compilation is currently supported for these template engines: StringTemplate, ERB, Erubis, Erubi, Haml, Nokogiri, Builder and Yajl.
Tilt is Copyright (c) 2010 Ryan Tomayko and distributed under the MIT license. See the COPYING
file for more info.
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