Writing Rails Templates in Pure Ruby

Question

I have a large number of views in my Rails application that both:

• Have a consistent and repeated structure, and
• Involve the use of helpers that accept large hash inputs.

As such, I would like to write these views directly in Ruby (using a DSL/helpers that I would write).

How can I get Rails to allow me to write .html.rb views?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Add an initializer with:

ActionView::Template.register_template_handler(:rb, :source.to_proc)

Then you can write .html.rb views in ruby, they should return a String of the desired context when executed.