TEMPLATES.md

Tilt Templates

While all Tilt templates use the same basic interface for template loading and evaluation, each varies in its capabilities and available options. Detailed documentation on each supported template engine is provided below.

• ERB - Tilt::ERBTemplate
• Erubis - Tilt::ErubisTemplate
• Haml - Tilt::HamlTemplate
• Liquid - Tilt::LiquidTemplate

Tilt includes support for CSS processors like lesscss and sass, in addition, it also supports simple text formats.

• Less - Tilt::LessTemplate
• Sass - Tilt::SassTemplate
• Markdown - Tilt::RDiscountTemplate
• RDoc - Tilt::RDocTemplate

ERB (erb, rhtml)

An easy to use but powerful templating system for Ruby.

Example

Hello <%= world %>!

Usage

The Tilt::ERBTemplate class is registered for all files ending in .erb or .rhtml by default. ERB templates support custom evaluation scopes and locals:

>> require 'erb'
>> template = Tilt.new('hello.html.erb', :trim => '<>')
=> #<Tilt::ERBTemplate @file='hello.html.erb'>
>> template.render(self, :world => 'World!')
=> "Hello World!"

Or, use the Tilt::ERBTemplate class directly to process strings:

require 'erb'
template = Tilt::ERBTemplate.new(nil, :trim => '<>') { "Hello <%= world %>!" }
template.render(self, :world => 'World!')

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'erb' at load time when using this template engine within a threaded environment.

Options

:trim => '-'

The ERB trim mode flags. This is a string consisting of any combination of the following characters:

• '>' omits newlines for lines ending in >
• '<>' omits newlines for lines starting with <% and ending in %>
• '-' omits newlines for lines ending in -%>.
• '%' enables processing of lines beginning with %

:safe => nil

The $SAFE level; when set, ERB code will be run in a separate thread with $SAFE set to the provided level.

:outvar => '_erbout'

The name of the variable used to accumulate template output. This can be any valid Ruby expression but must be assignable. By default a local variable named _erbout is used.

See also

• ERB documentation

Erubis (erubis)

Erubis is a fast, secure, and very extensible implementation of eRuby.

Usage

To use Erubis instead of ERB for all .erb and .rhtml files, register the extensions as follows:

Tilt.register 'erb', Tilt::ErubisTemplate
Tilt.register 'rhtml', Tilt::ErubisTemplate

Options

:engine_class => Erubis::Eruby

Allows you to specify a custom engine class to use instead of the default which is Erubis::Eruby.

:escape_html => false

When true, Erubis::EscapedEruby will be used as the engine class instead of the default. All content within <%= %> blocks will be automatically html escaped.

:outvar => '_erbout'

The name of the variable used to accumulate template output. This can be any valid Ruby expression but must be assignable. By default a local variable named _erbout is used.

:pattern => '<% %>'

Set pattern for embedded Ruby code.

See the ERB template documentation for examples, usage, and options.

:trim => true

Delete spaces around '<% %>'. (But, spaces around '<%= %>' are preserved.)

See also

• Erubis Home
• Erubis User's Guide

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'erubis' at load time when using this template engine within a threaded environment.

Haml (haml)

Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB, the templating language used in most Ruby on Rails applications. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it itself is a description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content. (more)

Example

%html
  %head
    %title= @title
  %body
    %h1
      Hello
      = world + '!'

Usage

The Tilt::HamlTemplate class is registered for all files ending in .haml by default. Haml templates support custom evaluation scopes and locals:

>> require 'haml'
>> template = Tilt.new('hello.haml')
=> #<Tilt::HamlTemplate @file='hello.haml'>
>> @title = "Hello Haml!"
>> template.render(self, :world => 'Haml!')
=> "
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello Haml!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello Haml!</h1>
  </body>
</html>"

Or, use the Tilt::HamlTemplate class directly to process strings:

>> require 'haml'
>> template = Tilt::HamlTemplate.new { "%h1= 'Hello Haml!'" }
=> #<Tilt::HamlTemplate @file=nil ...>
>> template.render
=> "<h1>Hello Haml!</h1>"

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'haml' at load time when using this template engine within a threaded environment.

Options

:format => :xhtml

Determines the output format. The default is :xhtml. Other options are :html4 and :html5, which are identical to :xhtml except there are no self-closing tags, the XML prolog is ignored and correct DOCTYPEs are generated.

:escape_html => false

Sets whether or not to escape HTML-sensitive characters in script. If this is true, = behaves like &=; otherwise, it behaves like !=. Note that if this is set, != should be used for yielding to subtemplates and rendering partials. Defaults to false.

:ugly => false

If set to true, Haml makes no attempt to properly indent or format the HTML output. This causes the rendering to be done much quicker than it would otherwise, but makes viewing the source unpleasant. Defaults to false.

:suppress_eval => false

Whether or not attribute hashes and Ruby scripts designated by = or ~ should be evaluated. If this is true, said scripts are rendered as empty strings. Defaults to false.

:attr_wrapper => "'"

The character that should wrap element attributes. This defaults to ' (an apostrophe). Characters of this type within the attributes will be escaped (e.g. by replacing them with ') if the character is an apostrophe or a quotation mark.

:autoclose => %w[meta img link br hr input area param col base]

A list of tag names that should be automatically self-closed if they have no content. Defaults to ['meta', 'img', 'link', 'br', 'hr', 'input', 'area', 'param', 'col', 'base'].

:preserve => %w[textarea pre]

A list of tag names that should automatically have their newlines preserved using the Haml::Helpers#preserve helper. This means that any content given on the same line as the tag will be preserved. For example, %textarea= "Foo\nBar" compiles to <textarea>Foo&#x000A;Bar</textarea>. Defaults to ['textarea', 'pre'].

:encoding => 'utf-8'

The encoding to use for the HTML output. Only available in Ruby 1.9 or higher. This can be a string or an Encoding Object. Note that Haml does not automatically re-encode Ruby values; any strings coming from outside the application should be converted before being passed into the Haml template. Defaults to Encoding.default_internal or, if that's not set, "utf-8".

See also

• #haml.docs
• Haml Tutorial
• Haml Reference
• Whitespace Preservation

Liquid (liquid)

Liquid is for rendering safe templates which cannot affect the security of the server they are rendered on.

Example

<html>
  <head>
    <title>{{ title }}</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello {{ world }}!</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Usage

Tilt::LiquidTemplate is registered for all files ending in .liquid by default. Liquid templates support locals and objects that respond to #to_h as scopes:

>> require 'liquid'
>> require 'tilt'
>> template = Tilt.new('hello.liquid')
=> #<Tilt::LiquidTemplate @file='hello.liquid'>
>> scope = { :title => "Hello Liquid Templates" }
>> template.render(nil, :world => "Liquid")
=> "
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello Liquid Templates</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello Liquid!</h1>
  </body>
</html>"

Or, use Tilt::LiquidTemplate directly to process strings:

>> require 'haml'
>> template = Tilt::HamlTemplate.new { "<h1>Hello Liquid!</h1>" }
=> #<Tilt::LiquidTemplate @file=nil ...>
>> template.render
=> "<h1>Hello Liquid!</h1>"

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'liquid' at load time when using this template engine within a threaded environment.

See also

• Liquid for Programmers
• Liquid Docs
• GitHub: tobi/liquid

Markdown (markdown, md, mkd)

Markdown is a lightweight markup language, created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz. For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, HTML is used. Marking up plain text with Markdown markup is easy and Markdown formatted texts are readable.

Markdown formatted texts are converted to HTML with the RDiscount engine, which is a Ruby extension over the fast Discount C library.

Example

Hello Markdown Templates
========================

Hello World. This is a paragraph.

Usage

To wrap a Markdown formatted document with a layout:

require 'erubis'
require 'rdiscount'
layout = Tilt::ErubisTemplate.new(nil, :pattern => '\{% %\}') do
    "<!doctype html><title></title>{%= yield %}"
end
data = Tilt::RDiscountTemplate.new { "# hello tilt" }
layout.render { data.render }
# => "<!doctype html><title></title><h1>hello tilt</h1>\n"

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'mustache' at load time when using this template engine in a threaded environment.

Options

RDiscount supports a variety of flags that control its behavior:

:smart => true|false

Set true to enable Smarty Pants style punctuation replacement.

:filter_html => true|false

Set true disallow raw HTML in Markdown contents. HTML is converted to literal text by escaping < characters.

See also

• Markdown Syntax Documentation
• GitHub: rtomayko/rdiscount

RDoc (rdoc)

RDoc is the simple text markup system that comes with Ruby's standard library.

Usage

NOTE: It's suggested that your program require 'rdoc/markup' and require 'rdoc/markup/to_html' at load time when using this template engine in a threaded environment.

Example

= Hello RDoc Templates

Hello World. This is a paragraph.

See also

• RDoc

Radius (radius)

Radius is the template language used by Radiant CMS. It is a tag language designed to be valid XML/HTML.

Example

<html>
<body>
  <h1><r:title /></h1>
  <ul class="<r:type />">
  <r:repeat times="3">
    <li><r:hello />!</li>
  </r:repeat>
  </ul>
  <r:yield />
</body>
</html>

Usage

To render a template such as the one above.

scope = OpenStruct.new
scope.title = "Radius Example"
scope.hello = "Hello, World!"

require 'radius'
template = Tilt::RadiusTemplate.new('example.radius', :tag_prefix=>'r')
template.render(scope, :type=>'hlist'){ "Jackpot!" }

The result will be:

<html>
<body>
  <h1>Radius Example</h1>
  <ul class="hlist">
    <li>Hello, World!</li>
    <li>Hello, World!</li>
    <li>Hello, World!</li>
  </ul>
  Jackpot!
</body>
</html>

See also

• Radius
• Radiant