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What is Amrita?

Amrita is a a html/xhtml template library for Ruby. It makes html documents from a template and a model data.

Amrita provides to join pure html document and model data.

Key Features

• The template for Amrita is a pure html/xhtml document without no special tag like <?...?> or <% .. %>.
• The template can be written by designers using almost any HTML editor.
• Need no change on Ruby code to change the view of dynamic part (not only static part) of the template.
• The model data may be standard Ruby data, Hash, Array, String... or an instance of a classes you made.
• The output is controlled by _data_ not by logic. So It's easy to write, test, debug code. (Good for eXtreamPrograming)
• HTML template can be compiled into Ruby code before execution with a little effort.

Example

Amrita mixes a template and model data up to a html document naturally matching the id attribute of HTML element to model data.

template

<table border="1">
  <tr><th>name</th><th>author</th></tr>
  <tr id="table1">
  <td id="name"><td id="author">
  </tr>
</table>

data

data = {
  :table1 => [
    { :name=>"Ruby", :author=>"matz" },
    { :name=>"perl", :author=>"Larry Wall" },
    { :name=>"python", :author=>"Guido van Rossum" },
  ]
}

template + data = output

<table>
  <tr>
  <th>name</th>
  <th>author</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Ruby</td>
  <td>matz</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>perl</td>
  .......

Licence

Amrita is Copyright © 2002 Taku Nakajima. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the README file of the Ruby distribution.