A gem for automatically generating a jst.js file full of compiled templates.

Currently supports Handlebars and Underscore out of the box, with more to come.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jstgenerator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Within a Ruby app, you can do something like this:

# or JstGenerator::Underscore.new for Underscore templates
JstGenerator::Handlebars.new({
    :dir_glob => "path/to/templates/*.hb",
    :jst_path => "output/jst.js"
}).generate

This will:

• create output/jst.js that creates a window.JST object
• loop through each file the dir_glob matches
• and add that to window.JST

An example jst.js file looks like so:

window.JST = {};
window.JST["test"] = Handlebars.compile("My template {{title}}")

You can then load in jst.js and compile that template:

var html = window.JST["test"]({ title: "Hello World" });

The advantage being the compilation step (Handlebars.compile) is only run once and that you can keep your templates in their own file, rather than within some HTML.

###Without a Ruby app (command line)

  $ gem install jstgenerator
  $ jstgenerator [type] [glob] [output]

For example:

  $ jstgenerator handlebars "views/templates/**/*.hb" lib/js/jst.js

Make sure you quote the glob string, else your shell may well expand it for you, which you don't want in this case.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

0.1.0

• added CLI tool

0.0.1

• initial release