Nolate - NO LAme TEmplate system
OVERVIEW
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Nolate is a template system similar to erb that is designed for not consuming
some huge amount of CPU without a good reason. It is written in pure Ruby.
Nolate is distributed under a two clause BSD license for max freedom.
Templates can include code inside <%= %> that is evaluated with eval() and
substituted to the string.
Also occurrences of <%#something%> are substituted with the value of the
hash field :something of an additional hash passed to nolate() or nlt()
functions.
IS IT SUPER FAST?
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Fast enough that a small template substitution is not measurable by the
apache benchmark against a sample Sinatra application.
Surprisingly this is not as common as it should be.
HOW TO USE IT?
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Nolate consists of just three functions. The first is nolate() that is the core
of the template system:
nolate("The sum is <%= 2+2 %> Also substitute <%#myfield%> ok",
{:myfield => 10})
The array is optional, if you don't have <%#%> style substitutions you can
simply omit it.
The second function is nlt(), and is used to also handle loading the template
from a 'views' directory. The above example can be translated using nlt()
just creating a file 'views/index.nlt' with the following content:
The sum is <%= 2+2 %> Also substitute <%#myfield%> ok
Then we can use nlt() calling:
nlt("index.nlt", {:myfield => "something"})
the nlt() funciton will take care to cache templates into memory.
In order to flush this templates to force reloading just call the third and
final provided function:
nlt_flush_templates()
CONTRIBUTE
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Please send me pull requests: http://github.com/antirez/nolate
So far thank you to: @soveran, @brmichel, @JEG2
It is not too late...
Salvatore