{"id":2121,"date":"2012-05-21T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.railsware.com\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:55:33","slug":"shared-handlebars-templates-for-rails-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/shared-handlebars-templates-for-rails-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Handlebars Templates for Rails 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello my dear friends. Today we will talk about the way, how we share handlebars templates in Rails 3. In the previous article<\/a> I explained you how we share mustache templates between rails backend and javascript frontend in our company<\/a>. After article publication, many people turned to the question “What about handlebars templates?”. With a little of efforts, we have created an alternative gem for shared templates – SHT_rails (Shared Handlebars Templates for Rails).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How it works?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all you have to add this gem to your Gemfile and start ‘bundle install’:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gem 'sht_rails', git: 'git:\/\/github.com\/railsware\/sht_rails.git'\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Next launch generator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rails g sht_rails:install\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That’s all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you can create a directory in ‘app\/templates’ handlebars templates (these templates ends with ‘.handlebars’ by default). Let’s create partial for the product:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
File: ‘app\/templates\/products\/_product.handlebars<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Content:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<a href=\"{{url}}\">{{title}}<\/a>\n<p>{{description}}<\/p>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can render this partial in ActiveView:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<%= render \"products\/product\", :handlebars => product.as_json %> \n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And in JavaScript:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
var product = \u2026 ; come from ajax call as json\nvar content = SHT['products\/product'](product);\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
If you want use handlebars partials, here example in ActiveView:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<%= render \"products\/product\", :handlebars => product.as_json, :partials => {:partial_key => (render \"products\/partial\")} %>\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And in Javascript:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Handlebars.registerPartial('partial_key', SHT['products\/partial'])\ncontent = SHT['products\/product'](product)\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So in the end you’ll have only one template, which is shared between Rails and JavaScript. The gem has one disadvantage (in my humble opinion) – it installed on the backend “therubyracer” gem, which compile templates on backend. Basically this gem is used to precompile assets in rails and doesn’t require on production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source code: https:\/\/github.com\/le0pard\/st_rails_example<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s all folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rubygems: https:\/\/rubygems.org\/gems\/sht_rails<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source code: https:\/\/github.com\/railsware\/sht_rails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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