it does not allow the execution of arbitrary code templates may contain functions calls of the form \\-function_name(coma,seperated,list,of,minival,values) "minival" is a variable parser (see gem "minival_refi") (last time I checked one argument was mandatory (suggestion: "\\-fun_without_args(nil)" )) usage: include Refi template = Template.new(template_string) chunks = template.get_chunks() "chunks" is an array containing the text of the template as strings and the function calls as hashes {fun_name => [list,of,arguments]}