CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsrubyruby-on-rails-4
WagnerMatosUK
WagnerMatosUK

Reputation: 4429

How to replace erb with liquid?

I'd like to use liquid in my Rails app. I've installed the gem. In order to use in all templates, I've created a library (lib/liquid_view.rb:):

class LiquidView
  def self.call(template)
    "LiquidView.new(self).render(#{template.source.inspect}, local_assigns)"
  end

  def initialize(view)
    @view = view
  end

  def render(template, local_assigns = {})
    @view.controller.headers["Content-Type"] ||= 'text/html; charset=utf-8'

    assigns = @view.assigns

    if @view.content_for?(:layout)
      assigns["content_for_layout"] = @view.content_for(:layout)
    end
    assigns.merge!(local_assigns.stringify_keys)

    controller = @view.controller
    filters = if controller.respond_to?(:liquid_filters, true)
                controller.send(:liquid_filters)
              elsif controller.respond_to?(:master_helper_module)
                [controller.master_helper_module]
              else
                [controller._helpers]
              end

    liquid = Liquid::Template.parse(template)
    liquid.render(assigns, :filters => filters, :registers => {:action_view => @view, :controller => @view.controller})
  end

  def compilable?
    false
  end
end

And added the following initialiser (config/initializers/liquid_template_handler.rb:):

require 'liquid_view'
ActionView::Template.register_template_handler :liquid, LiquidView

PS: I've followed these instructions.

Now, if rename a template file with liquid my_template.html.liquid the <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'mycss' %> stopped working, but more importantly the {{user.first_name}} variable did not print. In my controller I have @user = current_user

What am I missing?

My intention is to completely override erb with liquid in some templates, so ideally it should work like erb (in a sense that I can pass variables from the controller and simply render it in the template without using Liquid::Template.parse(@page.template) which by the way, I don't understand how it works on a file-based template.

PS: I'm also using [this] gem (https://github.com/yoolk/themes_on_rails) for separate templates. I'm not sure it does any impact on it.

PPS: I've seen this but doesn't apply as its a older version of Rails and I'm not using prepend.

PPPS: I'm using Ruby 2.2.2 and Rails 4.2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1507

Answers (2)

Julien Portalier
Julien Portalier

Reputation: 2999

Did you create a Drop to access @user?

https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Introduction-to-Drops

Liquid is a safe template system, so we can interpret on the backend templates that are created by the user. To access anything non trivial (number, string, hashes or arrays) you need a Drop, which is a controlled interface to define what the templates can access.

This is by design and for security reasons.

Upvotes: 0

Mahabub Islam Prio
Mahabub Islam Prio

Reputation: 1085

I hope this not the problem you are thinking it is . You can check the way as it was said here Github Description

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions