# Text templating packages

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/text-templating-packages/6422>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [17 June 2003 16:45 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/text-templating-packages/6422 "2003-06-17T16:45:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ara.T.Howard1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ara.T.Howard1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ara.T.Howard1)\
**Post date:** [17 June 2003 16:45 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/text-templating-packages/6422/1 "2003-06-17T16:45:28Z")

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rubyists-

can anyone reccomend a text templating library from the RAA? there are quite  
a few to choose from. i love amrita for html, but want to use something  
similar for sql generation. i’m just wondering if anyone has done any  
comparisons or has preferences.

thanks.

-a

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> > Ara Howard  
> > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory  
> > Information and Technology Services  
> > Data Systems Group  
> > R/FST 325 Broadway  
> > Boulder, CO 80305-3328  
> > Email: [ara.t.howard@noaa.gov](mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov)  
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> > ~ \> ruby -e ‘p(%.\x2d\x29..intern)’  
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**Author:** ![NAKAJIMA\_Taku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@NAKAJIMA\_Taku](https://rubytalk.org/u/NAKAJIMA_Taku)\
**Post date:** [20 June 2003 01:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/text-templating-packages/6422/2 "2003-06-20T01:00:22Z")

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> can anyone reccomend a text templating library from the RAA? there are quite  
> a few to choose from. i love amrita for html, but want to use something  
> similar for sql generation. i’m just wondering if anyone has done any  
> comparisons or has preferences.

I think ‘misen’ is what you want.

[http://devel.korinkan.co.jp/misen/](http://devel.korinkan.co.jp/misen/)

And MoonWolf is developing a Ruby version of Perl’s HTML::Template. I  
don’t know detail of this, but it seems similar to misen and amrita.

[http://www.moonwolf.com/ruby/archive/htmltemplate-20030530.tar.gz](http://www.moonwolf.com/ruby/archive/htmltemplate-20030530.tar.gz)

He says in his WEBLOG, that there are many improvement from this  
version but he did not opened the latest version yet.

The document of Perl version is here. MoonWolf says his Ruby version  
is almost compatible to this.

[http://sam.tregar.com/html\_template.html](http://sam.tregar.com/html_template.html)

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> –  
> Taku Nakajima  
> [http://www.walrus-ruby.org/amrita/](http://www.walrus-ruby.org/amrita/)