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The following script takes the name of a template as it's argument. Within the
template the command erb is in scope to call more templates. I wrote this for a friend who was having hell with NVU templates and I suggested to write the code by hand and use this script to build his static pages.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Quick and dirty template processing script. It takes
# as an argument the name of the first template script
# and then executes it to standard output.

require "erb"


class QuickTemplate
   attr_reader :args, :text
   def initialize(file)
      @text = File.read(file)
   end
   def exec(args={})
      b = binding
      template = ERB.new(@text, 0, "%<>")
      result = template.result(b)
      # Chomp the trailing newline
      result.gsub(/\n$/,'')
   end
end

def erb(file, args={})
   QuickTemplate.new(file).exec(args)
end

puts erb(ARGV[0])

The erb command itself takes an optional argument of a hash which is passed to the template as the
variable name args. Thus you can parameterize your sub templates.

Call the command as

ruby erb_run.rb main.thtml

The main template

<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <div>
    <%= erb("title.thtml") %>
   </div>
</html>

and the sub template title.thtml

<title> This is Alex's cool restraunt</title>

def vimsyn(text, filetype) synfile = Tempfile.new('synfile') synfile.close codefile = Tempfile.new('codefile') codefile << text codefile.close # filetype="matlab" expr = %Q%/usr/local/bin/vim -f -n -X -e -s -c \ "set filetype=#{filetpe}" \ -c "syntax on" \ -c "set background=dark" \ -c "let html_use_css=1" \ -c "run syntax/2html.vim" \ -c "wq! #{synfile.path}" -c "q" \ #{codefile.path}% `#{expr}` html = IO.readlines(synfile.path).join body = html.match(/<body.*<\/body>/m)[0] css = html.match(/<style.*<\/style>/m)[0] css.gsub!(/pre/,'pre.code') css.gsub!(/^body.*$/,'') body.gsub!(/^<body/,'<div') body.gsub!(/<\/body>/,'<div>') body.gsub!(/<pre>/,'<pre class=code>') return css+body end

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Running erb templates from the command line

Using VIM as a syntax highlighting engine from Ruby