From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T11:35:10+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz-5.0.0


On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, jonty wrote:

> I have been using haml out of necessity recently (sinatra), erb is  
> too much like hard work.
> I find that haml is deeply frustrating as getting the whitespace  
> right to nest things properly is, quite frankly, a pain.
> Markaby used the right sort of syntax I think and therefore I am  
> mightily intrigued by Tagz.
>
> Is it fast??


it's fairly fast, but not as fast as erb.

it's faster that builder or rexml for xml though.

i actually find mixing erb and tagz is the best approach.  my erb  
templates are generally < 100 lines and look something like


<title> foobar </title>

<%=

   ul_(:class => 'pretty'{
     @records.each do |record|
       li_{ record.name }
     end
   }

%>

in erb...


when that gets to ugly i factor or helpers that look like this

def the_list
   ul_(:class => 'pretty'{
     @records.each do |record|
       li_{ record.name }
     end
   }
end

and then tagz really starts to shine - you can stay in erb for the  
designer friendly bits and use straight tagz or factored out tagz for  
the logic bits.


cheers.

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