vibe.d 0.7.12 released
Nathan M. Swan
nathanmswan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 00:04:06 PST 2013
On Monday, 11 February 2013 at 21:41:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-02-11 22:07, FG wrote:
>
>> The problem I have with those is that they are designed for
>> HTML.
>> What if I wanted to make an email template instead?
>
> Erb is like a Ruby preprocessor that can be used for any
> format. It's used for many things in Ruby on Rails:
>
> index.html.erb - Erb preprocessor, result is HTML
>
> <% if foo %>
> <li>asd</li>
> <% end %>
>
> bar.js.coffee.erb - Erb then CoffeeScript preprocessor, result
> is JavaScript
>
> <% if foo %>
> bar = -> console.log("asd")
> <% end %>
>
> foo.text.erb - Erb preprocessor, result is plain text
>
> <% if foo %>
> asd
> <% end %>
>
> database.yml.erb - Erb preprocessor, result is YAML
>
> development:
> username: <%= username %>
> password: <%= password %>
This really makes sense for D. It can be easily combined with D's
mixin capabilities to make it so you don't even need to implement
stuff like various loops:
<% [d code] %> -> [d code]
<%= [d expr] %> -> buffer.write([d expr]);
[text] -> buffer.write("[text]");
NMS
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