From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T04:58:30+09:00
Subject: Re: generic, non web based templating engine?

On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Michael Campbell wrote:

>
> 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.

ERb is a standard Ruby library and can be used for anything (not just  
HTML), so if that's what you want, you can have it.  :)

James Edward Gray II