TemplateTags

There are several ways to provide client-side templates. One possibility is to put them inside <script> elements.

Unfortunately, many text editors interpret all such content as JavaScript and enable unwanted syntax highlight mode. However, this can be remedied by using a dedicated helper method. I found myself copying that helper method into several projects, therefore I decided to extract it into a gem.

This gem provides a #template_tag which renders a proper script tag. Template can be either:

1. Passed as a block:

   <%= template_tag "simple-tpl" do %>
     <div id="div-with-link">
       <%= link_to "Example", "http://example.test" %>
     </div>
   <% end %>

2. Indicated by passing a partial name:

   <%= template_tag "simple-tpl", partial: "/enclose_me",
       locals: {url: "http://example.test"} %>

Provided that following view partial is defined in /app/views/_enclose_me.html.erb:

Both will return the same HTML fragment:

This gem is ready for use. That said, there are several less-important features which could be added:

1. Ability to specify script element’s type attribute, either per use or with single application-wide setting.

2. Some ready-to-go getTemplate() JavaScript function, although document.getElementById() is no rocket science.

3. Ability to render HTML5’s <template> element, not widely supported yet.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/skalee/template_tags.

When run with Guard, tests may fail randomly for some reason. Retrying always helps. Never happens outside Guard.

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

And then execute:

Or install it yourself as:

Template Tags is licensed under either the terms of Ruby, ISC, or MIT (Expat) licenses.

• HTML’s New Template Tag — nice HTML5 Rocks article about <template> tag.