From: jonty <jontyjont@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T23:57:35+09:00
Subject: Re: tagz-5.0.0

Have tried it out this morning - I am delighted with it - natural ruby 
style, fast (see
http://blog.zenspider.com/2009/02/tagz-vs-markabybuilderhamlerub.html )

Is there a forum / user group or anything for it? I spotted one or two 
issues I'd like to discuss somewhere
is this list the best place?

Getting it to work with Sinatra was interesting - I had to setup ruby 
methods as views, because it is not yet incorporated
 as a templating engine by Sinatra, but that works fine. Any plans to 
fit it into Sinatra like the other templating engines?

But many thanks Ara.

ara.t.howard wrote:
>
> 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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> -- 
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> better. simply reflect on that.
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