Adds Property list (.plist) support to 'porth' (Plain Old Ruby Template Handler) gem. This allows data stored in plain ruby objects (arrays and hashes) to be easily represented in a view with a property list output.

Add this to your project's Gemfile and run $ bundle install

gem 'porth-plist'

Add the ".plist" mime time to your rails app's config/initializers/mime_types.rb:

Mime::Type.register "text/xml", :plist

Add ":plist" to your controller's responds_to calls, for example:

class PeopleController < ApplicationController

  respond_to :json, :xml, :plist, :html

  # GET /people
  # GET /people.json
  def index
    @people = Person.all

    respond_with @people
  end

  # GET /people/1
  # GET /people/1.json
  def show
    @person = Person.find(params[:id])

    respond_with @person
  end

etc...

Note: This gem adds a #to_plist method to ActiveRecord::Base which makes it consistent with #to_json and #to_xml as used by the standard Porth handlers.

Runtime dependencies:

• porth
• plist
• action_pack (>= 3.1) (to be consistent with porth)
• active_record (>= 3.1) (to be consistent with above)

Development dependencies:

• rpsec
• rake

• MRI 1.8.7

• MRI 1.9.2+

• rails >= 3.1 (to be consistent with Porth)

1. Fork
2. Install dependancies by running $ bundle install
3. Write tests and code
4. Make sure the tests pass by running $ rake test
5. Push and send a pull request on GitHub

Special thanks to Tate Johnson (et al) for making Porth!

Copyright © 2011 Matt Connolly. Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE.