From: "Nathaniel S. H. Brown" <nshb@...>
Date: 2006-01-22T16:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Radius 0.0.1 -- Powerful Tag-Based Templates

This looks a lot like PHPTAL.

http://phptal.motion-twin.com/

Nice work. Would love to see a .rad extension for Rails at some point :)

-Nb

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 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Long [mailto:ng@johnwlong.com] 
> Sent: January 21, 2006 9:18 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ANN] Radius 0.0.1 -- Powerful Tag-Based Templates
> 
> I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Radius 
> 0.0.1. This is very beta right now, but I wanted to release 
> it so that I could begin getting feedback.
> 
> Radius is a small, but powerful tag-based template language 
> for Ruby inspired by the template languages used in 
> MovableType <www.movabletype.org> and TextPattern 
> <www.textpattern.com>. It uses tags similar to HTML, but can 
> be used to generate any form of plain text (XML, e-mail, etc...).
> 
> Download:
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1262
> 
> Documentation:
> http://radius.rubyforge.org
> 
> Instalation:
> % gem install radius
> 
> A small usage example:
> 
>    class ThreeStoogesContext < Radius::Context
>      def initialize
>        @prefix = 'ts'
>      end
>      def stooge(attr)
>        content = ''
>        ["Larry", "Moe", "Curly"].each do |name|
>          @name = name
>          content << yield
>        end
>        content
>      end
>      def name(attr)
>        @name
>      end
>    end
> 
>    parser = Radius::Parser.new(ThreeStoogesContext.new)
> 
>    template = <<-TEMPLATE
>    <ul>
>    <ts:stooge>
>    <li><ts:name /></li>
>    </ts:stooge>
>    </ul>
>    TEMPLATE
> 
>    puts parser.parse(template)
> 
> 
> This will output:
> 
>    <ul>
> 
>      <li>Larry</li>
> 
>      <li>Moe</li>
> 
>      <li>Curly</li>
> 
>    </ul>
> 
> 
> Learn more by reading the Quick Start guide:
> http://radius.rubyforge.org/files/QUICKSTART.html
> 
> Enjoy!
>