Template Engine in Ruby (similar to TT2)

[Ralf Robert Höppel]

Hi all,

is there a template engine similar to Template Toolkit 2 (in Perl) available for Ruby? It should be feature-rich, stand-alone, not restricted to only generate HTML output.

I know there are solutions around (everybody writes his own, I suppose), but it is difficult to get an overview on what is available.

Thanks ---
Ralf.

 

[Phrogz]

is there a template engine similar to Template Toolkit 2 (in Perl) available for Ruby? It should be feature-rich, stand-alone, not restricted to only generate HTML output.

I'm not familiar with Perl or TT2. However, I will say that ERB (that
comes with Ruby) sounds like a good match. I use it at work for both
HTML and C++ code generation.

Because it was so common for me to want to use an XML file to drive an
ERB template, I wrote a little script that loads a specified XML file
into REXML, and makes that available to an ERB template.

It's simple, but it's Ruby...how much more simplicity and power do you
need?

I've uploaded documentation and code for it at
http://phrogz.net/AnarkSamples/RubyGen/