From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-03-24T23:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz-5.0.0


On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Ara Howard wrote:
>>   tagz.rb is generates html, xml, or any sgml variant like a small
>> ninja
>>   running across the backs of a herd of giraffes swatting of heads
>> like a
>>   mark-up weedwacker.
>
> Looks interesting.
>
> Aside: people looking at this might also be interested in HAML.  
> Several
> of your examples look very similar to how I use HAML with Sinatra.

you mean combining erb with the dsl i assume?

>>
>     def ajax_responder
>       haml :_ajax_table
>     end
>
>     ...
>     @@ _ajax_table
>     %table
>       - rows.each do |row|
>         %tr
>           - row.each do |cell|
>             %td&= cell
>
> I can see that tagz works particularly well where you want to generate
> HTML snippets directly inline with your code. The inline form of  
> HAML is
> a bit icky because it needs to align with the left-hand edge. You  
> could
> fix this with a helper, but I prefer partials because they are easily
> precompiled and cached.



i've used this

     def unindent! s
       indent = nil
       s.each do |line|
         next if line =~ %r/^\s*$/
         indent = line[%r/^\s*/] and break
       end
       s.gsub! %r/^#{ indent }/, "" if indent
       s
     end

     def unindent s
       unindent! "#{ s }"
     end


to get around that 'left hand side' issue.

cheers!

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