templebars

No longer maintained

This gem targets an outdated version of Rails and is no longer maintained.

templebars allows you to precomile Handlebars templates in Rails and make them available globally on the client-side in a Templates object.

Adding Templebars to Rails 3.1+

Add templebars to your Gemfile in the assets group:

group :assets do
  ...
  gem 'templebars'
end

And run bundle install to install it.

Then, you'll need to include the Handlebars runtime in your JavaScript manifest (app/assets/javascripts/application.js):

//= require handlebars.runtime

If you still need to compile Handlebars templates on the client side, you'll want to require the full handlebars, instead:

//= require handlebars

Adding templates

Place your templates in app/assets/templates/ and require all of them in your JavaScript manifest (application.js):

//= require_tree ../templates

Your template file names must be suffixed with the ".js.handlebars" or ".js.hbs" extensions in order for Templebars to handle them.

Using templates

Your templates will be available on the client side via their paths in a global Templates object. For example, a template at app/assets/templates/user.handlebars can be rendered with:

Templates['user'](context);

And a template at app/assets/templates/users/detail.handlebars with:

Templates['users/detail'](context);

Using partials

Place partials in app/assets/templates/partials/ and they will be available to all of your Handlebars templates. For example, app/assets/templates/partials/big_button.js.hbs can be included with:

{{> big_button }}

Using a different global Templates object

To use Templebars with, for example, Ember.js, add the following to your config/application.rb:

config.templebars_template_global = "Ember.TEMPLATES"

Version History

• 0.5.0 Add support for partials, upgrade Handlebars to 4.0.5.
• 0.4.0 Drop support for old Rails versions, clean up code, bump sprockets and execjs version dependencies.
• 0.3.1 Relax tilt dependency version to ~> 1.3.
• 0.3.0 Update Handlebars to 1.0.0, clean up gem dependencies.
• 0.2.2 Update Handlebars to a custom 1.0.rc.1 build, which fixes issue #317.
• 0.2.1 Update execjs and sprockets dependencies.
• 0.2.0 Update Handlebars to 1.0.rc.1.