On: HTML_slice: Enable Ruby classes the ability to gen...

[petepete]

Rails gives you the tools to do much of this already.

For example, this:

    html_slice :stuff do
      h1 'hello world' # @html_slice[:default] << '<h1>hello world</h1>'
      text # @html_slice[:default] << '<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>'
      div do
        _ '<b> some raw html </b>'
      end
    end

Could be written in a helper like this:

    safe_join([
      tag.h1('Hello world'),
      tag.p('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'),
      tag.div(<<~RAW.html_safe)
        <b>some raw html</b>
      RAW
    ])

[rootedbox → petepete]

Yah I think html_slice would be ok in a ruby only project. But as the mantra goes if in rails do it the rails way. Helpers are great!

[doright → petepete]

Nokogiri also has something similar; I've used it in a couple projects where I needed to output XML.

https://nokogiri.org/rdoc/Nokogiri/XML/Builder.html

https://nokogiri.org/rdoc/Nokogiri/HTML5/Builder.html

[urronglol → petepete]

That syntax looks horrendous