From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-27T04:28:53+09:00
Subject: Re: When modruby/eruby isn't available

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 12:09 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I'd like to generate some web pages on demand from some templates (HTML
> with embedded Ruby code) or perhaps use some combination of templates and
> YAML files.

A few templating systems take YAML documents directly.

Amrita. 
[http://www.brain-tokyo.jp/research/amrita/sources/sample/tour/amsyaml.ams]
The XTemplate library.  [http://xtemplate.sf.net/yaml.html]

Any templating system that can take a Ruby Hash or data structure will allow 
YAML loading, though.

  require 'amrita/template'
  require 'yaml'
  include Amrita

  tmpl = TemplateFile.new( "template.html" )
  data = YAML::load( File.open( "template.yml" ) )
  tmpl.expand( STDOUT, data )

With PageTemplate:

  require 'PageTemplate'
  require 'yaml'

  template = PageTemplate.new()
  template.load( "/var/www/templates/template.txt" )
  template['config'] = YAML::load( File.open( "/var/www/config.yml" ) )
  print template.output

You'll be fine without eruby and mod_ruby.

_why