Say Hello to Rubified¶ ↑

Rubified is a simple way to create XML or HTML documents without actually having to write any of either (though you can if you’d really like to), inspired by Smalltalk’s Seaside, where you build websites with no HTML around for miles.

Currently, not all HTML tag classes exist, so you can create missing ones with Rubified::new_tag and pass the name as the parameter.

Rubified.new_tag(:div)

Then use it like this:

Div.new({:id=>"foo", :class=>"bar"}).to_html

This generates:

<div id="foo" class="bar"></div>

You can also get other elements or text inside tags. This is done by putting the object inside a block after the to_html method. Note that if a tag doesn’t have an ending pair (like <img>), it will go after. For example:

Div.new({:id=>"foo", :class=>"bar"}).to_html {"Hello world!"}

“But that’s so much to type,” you may say. Yes, it is. That’s why the Canvas module exists! Here’s some code for a small, but valid HTML page utilizing it:

include Rubified::Canvas
html {
  head {
    # A simple page title
    title {"Generated with Rubified"}
  }
  # Here's the real content
  body {
    #                                     v v v       v
    # Remember, you can substitute str-   | | | Don't | forget
    # ings for tags inside element blocks V V V the   V plus!
    div({:id=>"foo", :class=>"bar"}) {"Hello world!"} +
    # Slap on an image                                   v v v
    # This text will go after the image (no ending       | | |
    # tag)                                               V V V
    img({:src=>"images/smiley.jpg", :alt=>"smiley"}) {"*Happy face*"}
  }
}

When creating a new tag via Rubified.new_tag, it will automatically define a corresponding method on Rubified::Canvas to use.

• SOMEWHAT DONE

  Pre-fill library with HTML tags

• DONE

  Add the ability to specify wether or not a particular tag needs a closing pair

• DONE

  Instead of directly creating new instances of tags and rendering them, add a

  Canvas class to do this

• DONE

  Make embedding elements possible (using blocks)

• DONE

  Figure out another way to dynamically define methods on Rubified::Canvas (the best/easiest way doesn’t work in Ruby MRE 1.9.2 due to a bug.