require 'erb' module ActionView #:nodoc: class ActionViewError < StandardError #:nodoc: end # Action View templates can be written in two ways. If the template file has a +.rhtml+ extension then it uses a mixture of ERb # (included in Ruby) and HTML. If the template file has a +.rxml+ extension then Jim Weirich's Builder::XmlMarkup library is used. # # = ERb # # You trigger ERb by using embeddings such as <% %> and <%= %>. The difference is whether you want output or not. Consider the # following loop for names: # # Names of all the people # <% for person in @people %> # Name: <%= person.name %>
# <% end %> # # The loop is setup in regular embedding tags (<% %>) and the name is written using the output embedding tag (<%= %>). Note that this # is not just a usage suggestion. Regular output functions like print or puts won't work with ERb templates. So this would be wrong: # # Hi, Mr. <% puts "Frodo" %> # # (If you absolutely must write from within a function, you can use the TextHelper#concat) # # == Using sub templates # # Using sub templates allows you to sidestep tedious replication and extract common display structures in shared templates. The # classic example is the use of a header and footer (even though the Action Pack-way would be to use Layouts): # # <%= render "shared/header" %> # Something really specific and terrific # <%= render "shared/footer" %> # # As you see, we use the output embeddings for the render methods. The render call itself will just return a string holding the # result of the rendering. The output embedding writes it to the current template. # # But you don't have to restrict yourself to static includes. Templates can share variables amongst themselves by using instance # variables defined in using the regular embedding tags. Like this: # # <% @page_title = "A Wonderful Hello" %> # <%= render "shared/header" %> # # Now the header can pick up on the @page_title variable and use it for outputting a title tag: # # <%= @page_title %> # # == Passing local variables to sub templates # # You can pass local variables to sub templates by using a hash with the variable names as keys and the objects as values: # # <%= render "shared/header", { "headline" => "Welcome", "person" => person } %> # # These can now be accessed in shared/header with: # # Headline: <%= headline %> # First name: <%= person.first_name %> # # == Template caching # # The parsing of ERb templates are cached by default, but the reading of them are not. This means that the application by default # will reflect changes to the templates immediatly. If you'd like to sacrifice that immediacy for the speed gain given by also # caching the loading of templates (reading from the file systen), you can turn that on with # ActionView::Base.cache_template_loading = true. # # == Builder # # Builder templates are a more programatic alternative to ERb. They are especially useful for generating XML content. An +XmlMarkup+ object # named +xml+ is automatically made available to templates with a +.rxml+ extension. # # Here are some basic examples: # # xml.em("emphasized") # => emphasized # xml.em { xml.b("emp & bold") } # => emph & bold # xml.a("A Link", "href"=>"http://onestepback.org") # => A Link # xm.target("name"=>"compile", "option"=>"fast") # => # # NOTE: order of attributes is not specified. # # Any method with a block will be treated as an XML markup tag with nested markup in the block. For example, the following: # # xml.div { # xml.h1(@person.name) # xml.p(@person.bio) # } # # would produce something like: # #
#

David Heinemeier Hansson

#

A product of Danish Design during the Winter of '79...

#
# # A full-length RSS example actually used on Basecamp: # # xml.rss("version" => "2.0", "xmlns:dc" => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/") do # xml.channel do # xml.title(@feed_title) # xml.link(@url) # xml.description "Basecamp: Recent items" # xml.language "en-us" # xml.ttl "40" # # for item in @recent_items # xml.item do # xml.title(item_title(item)) # xml.description(item_description(item)) if item_description(item) # xml.pubDate(item_pubDate(item)) # xml.guid(@person.firm.account.url + @recent_items.url(item)) # xml.link(@person.firm.account.url + @recent_items.url(item)) # # xml.tag!("dc:creator", item.author_name) if item_has_creator?(item) # end # end # end # end # # More builder documentation can be found at http://builder.rubyforge.org. class Base include ERB::Util attr_reader :first_render attr_accessor :base_path, :assigns, :template_extension attr_accessor :controller # Turn on to cache the reading of templates from the file system. Doing so means that you have to restart the server # when changing templates, but that rendering will be faster. @@cache_template_loading = false cattr_accessor :cache_template_loading @@compiled_erb_templates = {} @@loaded_templates = {} def self.load_helpers(helper_dir)#:nodoc: Dir.foreach(helper_dir) do |helper_file| next unless helper_file =~ /_helper.rb$/ require helper_dir + helper_file helper_module_name = helper_file.capitalize.gsub(/_([a-z])/) { |m| $1.capitalize }[0..-4] class_eval("include ActionView::Helpers::#{helper_module_name}") if Helpers.const_defined?(helper_module_name) end end def self.controller_delegate(*methods)#:nodoc: methods.flatten.each do |method| class_eval <<-end_eval def #{method}(*args, &block) controller.send(%(#{method}), *args, &block) end end_eval end end def initialize(base_path = nil, assigns_for_first_render = {}, controller = nil)#:nodoc: @base_path, @assigns = base_path, assigns_for_first_render @controller = controller end # Renders the template present at template_path. If use_full_path is set to true, # it's relative to the template_root, otherwise it's absolute. The hash in local_assigns # is made available as local variables. def render_file(template_path, use_full_path = true, local_assigns = {}) @first_render = template_path if @first_render.nil? if use_full_path template_extension = pick_template_extension(template_path) template_file_name = full_template_path(template_path, template_extension) else template_file_name = template_path template_extension = template_path.split(".").last end template_source = read_template_file(template_file_name) begin render_template(template_extension, template_source, local_assigns) rescue Exception => e if TemplateError === e e.sub_template_of(template_file_name) raise e else raise TemplateError.new(@base_path, template_file_name, @assigns, template_source, e) end end end # Renders the template present at template_path (relative to the template_root). # The hash in local_assigns is made available as local variables. def render(template_path, local_assigns = {}) render_file(template_path, true, local_assigns) end # Renders the +template+ which is given as a string as either rhtml or rxml depending on template_extension. # The hash in local_assigns is made available as local variables. def render_template(template_extension, template, local_assigns = {}) b = binding local_assigns.each { |key, value| eval "#{key} = local_assigns[\"#{key}\"]", b } @assigns.each { |key, value| instance_variable_set "@#{key}", value } xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => 2) send(pick_rendering_method(template_extension), template, binding) end def pick_template_extension(template_path)#:nodoc: if erb_template_exists?(template_path) "rhtml" elsif builder_template_exists?(template_path) "rxml" else raise ActionViewError, "No rhtml or rxml template found for #{template_path}" end end def pick_rendering_method(template_extension)#:nodoc: (template_extension == "rxml" ? "rxml" : "rhtml") + "_render" end def erb_template_exists?(template_path)#:nodoc: template_exists?(template_path, "rhtml") end def builder_template_exists?(template_path)#:nodoc: template_exists?(template_path, "rxml") end def file_exists?(template_path)#:nodoc: erb_template_exists?(template_path) || builder_template_exists?(template_path) end # Returns true is the file may be rendered implicitly. def file_public?(template_path)#:nodoc: template_path.split("/").last[0,1] != "_" end private def full_template_path(template_path, extension) "#{@base_path}/#{template_path}.#{extension}" end def template_exists?(template_path, extension) (cache_template_loading && @@loaded_templates.has_key?(template_path)) || FileTest.exists?(full_template_path(template_path, extension)) end def read_template_file(template_path) unless cache_template_loading && @@loaded_templates[template_path] @@loaded_templates[template_path] = File.read(template_path) end @@loaded_templates[template_path] end def rhtml_render(template, binding) @@compiled_erb_templates[template] ||= ERB.new(template, nil, '-') @@compiled_erb_templates[template].result(binding) end def rxml_render(template, binding) @controller.headers["Content-Type"] ||= 'text/xml' eval(template, binding) end end end require 'action_view/template_error'