Markaby

Markaby is small Ruby library for writing HTML code in pure Ruby. It is an alternative to templating languages such as ERb and HAML which combine Ruby code with some form of markup. It was developed by why the lucky stiff and it's name comes from "Markup as Ruby".

Usage

require 'markaby'

mab = Markaby::Builder.newmab.html do head { title "Boats.com" } body do h1 "Boats.com has great deals" ul do li "$49 for a canoe" li "$39 for a raft" li "$29 for a huge boot that floats and can fit 5 people" end endendputs mab.to_s

Executing the above code will render the following html:

Boats.com has great deals

• $49 for a canoe
• $39 for a raft
• $29 for a huge boot that floats and can fit 5 people

Distribution

Gem

gem install markaby

Rails plugin

script/plugin install http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/markaby/trunk

Camping

Markaby is the templating engine used for the Camping micro web framework.

module HomePage::Views

# If you have a `layout' method like this, it # will wrap the HTML in the other methods. The # `self << yield' is where the HTML is inserted. def layout html do title { 'My HomePage' } body { self << yield } end end

# The `index' view. Inside your views, you express # the HTML in Ruby. See http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/markaby/. def index p 'Hi my name is Charles.' p 'Here are some links:' ul do li { a 'Google', :href => 'http://google.com' } li { a 'A sample page', :href => '/sample' } end end

# The `sample' view. def sample p 'A sample page' end end

ee also

* eRuby
* Haml
* Camping (microframework)

External links

* [http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/markaby/ Project homepage]
* [http://railscasts.com/episodes/69 Screencast example]