jasl / erubi

Small ERB Implementation

Erubi¶ ↑

Erubi is a ERB template engine for ruby. It is a simplified fork of Erubis, using the same basic algorithm, with the following differences:

• Handles postfix conditionals when using escaping (e.g. <%= foo if bar %>)

• Supports frozen_string_literal: true in templates via :freeze option

• Works with ruby’s –enable-frozen-string-literal option

• Automatically freezes strings for template text when ruby optimizes it (on ruby 2.1+)

• Escapes ‘ (apostrophe) when escaping for better XSS protection

• Has 6x faster escaping on ruby 2.3+ by using cgi/escape

• Has 86% smaller memory footprint

• Does no monkey patching (Erubis adds a method to Kernel)

• Uses an immutable design (all options passed to the constructor, which returns a frozen object)

• Has simpler internals (1 file, <150 lines of code)

• Has an open development model (Erubis doesn’t have a public source control repository or bug tracker)

• Is not dead (Erubis hasn’t been updated since 2011)

It is not designed with Erubis API compatibility in mind, though most Erubis ERB syntax works, with the following exceptions:

• No support for <%=== for debug output

Installation¶ ↑

gem install erubi

Source Code¶ ↑

Source code is available on GitHub at github.com/jeremyevans/erubi

Usage¶ ↑

Erubi only has built in support for retrieving the generated source for a file:

require 'erubi'
eval(Erubi::Engine.new(File.read('filename.erb')).src)

Most users are will probably use Erubi via Rails or Tilt. Erubi is the default erb template handler in Tilt 2.0.6+ and will be the default template handler in Rails 5.1+.

Capturing¶ ↑

Erubi does not support capturing block output into the template by default. However, it comes with an erubi/capture_end file that supports capturing via <%|=, <%|==, <%| tags:

<%|= form do %>
  <input>
<%| end %>

This offers similar functionality to that offered by Rails’ <%= tags, but without the corner cases with that approach (which are due to attempting to parse ruby code via a regexp). Similar to the <%= and <%== tags, <%|= captures by default and <%|== captures and escapes by default, but this can be reversed via the :escape_capture or :escape options.

To use the capture_end support with tilt:

require 'tilt'
require 'erubi/capture_end'
Tilt.new("filename.erb", :engine_class=>Erubi::CaptureEndEngine).render

Reporting Bugs¶ ↑

The bug tracker is located at github.com/jeremyevans/erubi/issues

License¶ ↑

MIT

Authors¶ ↑

Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> kuwata-lab.com