Ruby_box

For some time I wondered what to do with Ruby::Box. It wasn’t what I expected.

Keeping things in namespace.. how boring. And we already have this.

Then I realized.. you could reverse it! You could use it to SHARE namespace.

So I wrote a new version of an old templating-engine.

• database has ’template’ and ‘snippet’
• template can import ‘snippet’.. that can import ‘snippet’ (recursively).
• a page can be built from a ’template’ but not from a ‘snippet’.

So.. the ’template’ instantiates the Box; the ‘snippet’(s) use it.

A snippet is made into a Proc.. so it could take arguments.

The ’template’ or ‘snippet’ can ENTER them: {{group:name arg1, arg2, named: arg}}

Now I can use normal Ruby and just return the result (the String).

Add to this:

• aggregated variables (processed last)
• vanishing comments (#- will not appear in produced output)