[ANN] Amrita2 1.9.6

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Amrita2 is a XML/HTML template library for Ruby. I released a new
version 1.9.6 as BETA1 for 2.0. Get it from

http://amrita2.rubyforge.org/

I reduced undocumented features and refactored much to prepare the
comming stable release. And ..

* added gemspec and make it Rails plugin
* simplified the ERB processing feature
* new feature for setting two attributes (like class='odd' and
class='even') alternately

Now Amrita2 template can contain ERB source in it.

       <table border='1'>
         <tr><th>name</th><th>author</th></tr>
         <tr id='languages'>
           <td><![CDATA[
              <a href='<%= $_.url %>'><%= $_.name %></a>
           ]]></td>
           <td id='creator'></td>
         </tr>
       </table>

CDATA in <td> element will be evaluated as many times as number of
'languages' data. And each item will be set to '$_' before ERB
evaluating. See this page for detail.

How to use Amrita2 with Ruby On Rails
http://amrita2.rubyforge.org/Rails.html

And this method setup Template to insert two attributes alternately.

def languages_setup_template(template)
   tmpl = Amrita2::TemplateText.new(template)
   tmpl.use_erb(binding)
   tmpl.element_option[:languages] = { :mv_attr=> { :class=>%w(odd even)
} }
   tmpl
end

This template produces output like this.

<table border='1'>
<tr><th>name</th><th>author</th></tr>
<tr class='odd'>
   <td><a href='http://www.ruby-lang.org/&#39; <http://www.ruby-lang.org/'&gt;

Ruby</a></td>

   <td>matz</td>
</tr><tr class='even'>
   <td><a href='http://www.perl.com/&#39; <http://www.perl.com/'&gt;

perl</a></td>

   <td>Larry Wall</td>
</tr><tr class='odd'>
   <td><a href='http://www.python.org/&#39; <http://www.python.org/'&gt;

python</a></td>

   <td>Guido van Rossum</td>
</tr>
</table>

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Taku Nakajima

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Taku Nakajima wrote:

Amrita2 is a XML/HTML template library for Ruby. I released a new
version 1.9.6 as BETA1 for 2.0.

Great. Any chance you could release Amrita as a gem?

Thanks,
Gavin

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Great. Any chance you could release Amrita as a gem?

I have uploaded gem of Amrita2 to rubyforge. So, you can install
Amrita2 by gem now. Just type

  # gem install amrita2

I will upload gem of Amrita 1.0.X with next release of Amrita2.

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Taku Nakajima