Htmless - Fast extensible html5 builder in pure Ruby

17 May 2013 Tags:

Htmless is actually not a new gem. It was renamed from a gem named hammer_builder.

Quick syntax example

Htmless::Formatted.new.go_in do
  html5
  html do
    head { title 'my_page' }
    body do
      div.content! do
        p.centered "my page's content"
      end
    end
  end
end.to_html

returns

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>my_page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="content">
      <p class="centered">my page's content</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

What's new

There is not much new, only the name and that it's no longer dependent on ActiveSupport. This is a maintenance release.

For those unfamiliar with the gem

Main features of Htmless are:

  • It's as fast as template-engines (erb) and much faster then other Ruby HTML builders.
  • You can use inheritance (impossible with templates) and other properties of Ruby.
  • You can write html in pure Ruby.

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