Allows you to use Mustache template partials in Rails and share these with Javascript using the Asset Pipeline
Create a partial just like you would with erb, prefixing the name with an underscore.
app/mustaches/posts/_post_list.mustache
The template will have access to all normal rails helper methods and any instance variables that were set in the controller. If you need more than this an optional view class can be included, it should have the same name as the partial, but without the underscore.
app/views/posts/post_list_view.rb
module Posts
class PostListView < Poirot::View
def foo
"bar"
end
def post_link
post_path(post)
end
end
end
The view class has access to all the normal Rails helpers and access to the controller instance variables, e.g @post becomes the method post.
Then in your Javascript simply add a Sprockets require directive
//= require posts/_post_list
MustacheTemplate['posts/_post_list']
Poirot also adds a javascript helper for using mustache templates from the browser. In Rails 3.1 this will be automatically added to the asset pipeline.
If you are using rails 3 then you can run the rails g poirot:install to install the javascripts in your application.
Using the poirot javascript helper is simple, given a template added to the page using template_include_tag
<%= template_include_tag 'post_list' %>
You can render this template from javascript by doing the following
poirot.postList()
This will return the contents of the post_list template wrapped in a jQuery object, ready for inserting into the dom. If you have data to pass to the template then you can pass it as the argument to the function, e.g.
poirot.postList({foo: "bar"})
- Rails >3.0.0
- Mustache
An example app using Poirot