libxml_rails¶ ↑

libxml_rails is a gem/rails plugin by Brandon Mitchell. It is designed to replace the default XML processor in Rails (XmlSimple) with the C-based libxml. It requires the libxml-ruby gem.

This fork is maintained by Wes ‘Narnach’ Oldenbeuving.

Changes from the Brandon’s version are:

• Don’t rely on echoe to build the gem.

• Added Hash#to_xml_with_libxml and Array#to_xml_with_libxml

• ActiveResource::Base#to_xml uses libxml.

• ActiveResource::Formats::XmlFormat#encode uses libxml

libxml_rails can be installed as a rails plugin or as a stand-alone gem.

From PROJECT_ROOT:

gem install libxml-ruby
rake install

From RAILS_ROOT:

script/plugin install git://github.com/Narnach/libxml_rails.git

Add the following to the configuration block in config/environment.rb:

config.gem 'libxml-ruby'

Add the following to the configuration block in config/environment.rb:

config.gem 'Narnach-libxml_rails', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'

Copyright © 2008 Brandon Mitchell, released under the MIT license