Agile Web Development

MasterView is a ruby/rails optimized HTML/XHTML friendly template engine. Edit in WYSIWYG editor and still use partials and rails helpers.

Goals

• Create/extend a template engine for rails that would be XHTML friendly and thus could be edited/styled with a WYSIWYG HTML editor even late in development without breaking template.
• Keep it simple. DRY. No extra config files, simple syntax with ruby flavor.
• Design it specifically for ruby and rails. Use the full power and not be limited in its capabilities over what can be done with ERb
• Work nicely with layouts, partials, and rails html helpers.
• Reduce complexity, work with existing rails code, no extra view logic or hashes than what is used by ERb. Scaffold generate initial templates or work from existing html prototype.
• Use one master file to drive all related sections, simplifying editing.
• Preview in browser without running an app. Allow for dummy data in the template so that the page can be viewed and styled independently of the application.
• Performance equal to ERb

Owner: Jeff Barczewski

Home: http://masterview.org/

Repository: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/masterview/tags/masterview

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: View Extensions