From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T04:52:20+09:00
Subject: generic, non web based templating engine?


Is there a generic templating engine for ruby, a la Freemarker for
Java?  What I'm looking for is something that can take a ruby "model"
(object graph, hashes, lists, etc.), a template, merge the 2 and spit
out the result.

I'd like this *NOT* specifically for Web usage; that is, it doesn't
take .rhtml, or any html necessarily, doesn't need to be run as part
of mod_ruby inside apache, etc., and ideally would be pure ruby.

I like the erb syntax, and would love to have the full power of ruby
inside the template, if possible.  Something like OGNL is for java...

A quick glance at rubyforge and RAA didn't yield much, but I'm
probably missing something.

Or, failing that, a reason I'm obviously overlooking as to why
something like this isn't necessary and what to do instead.

Thanks

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I tend to view "truly flexible" by another term: "Make everything
equally hard". -- DHH