Overview
Mold is a view template handler for Rails 3+ that renders Ruby objects to JSON.
Compatibility
Mold is compatible with Rails Rails 3.x.
Installation
Install Mold as a gem:
gem install moldor add to your Gemfile:
gem 'mold'Usage
It's pretty straight-forward to create a Mold JSON template, just create the structure as you would in a Hash:
# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class Users < ActionController:Base
def show
@user = User.first
end
end
# app/views/users/show.mold
{
:user => {
:id => @user.id,
:name => @user.name
}
}You can also create and use view partials in Mold:
# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class Users < ActionController:Base
def index
@users = User.all
end
end
# app/views/users/_user.json.mold
{
:user => {
:id => user.id,
:name => user.name
}
}
# app/views/users/index.json.mold
{
:users => @users.map{ |user| render(:partial => 'user', :object => user) }
}Writing code in a Mold view also works:
# app/views/users/show.json.mold
time = Time.now
{
:user => {
:time => time
}
}Inspiration
This gem has been inspired mostly by ruby_template_handler.
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 Thiago Jackiw. See License.txt for details.