BackboneHandlebars

A gem that vendors the latest Backbone, Underscore, and Handlebars libraries and compiles/precompiles Handlebars templates.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'backbone_handlebars'

rails generate backbone_handlebars:install

This will generate the applications structure in the app/assets/javascripts directory and add the precompile option to your production environment.

Your templates will be stored in Handlebars.templates and can be accessed by their path + name. eg: You have a template called post.handlebars in app/assets/javascripts/templates/posts/post.handlebars. You would access this template with the following:

Handlebars.templates['posts/post']

config.handlebars.precompile

Enables precompilation and will serve only the Handlebars runtime instead of the full library.

config.handlebars.path

Changes the path of the Handlebars library that precompiles your templates

If you want to use your own Handlebars or Handlebars runtime place them in vendor/assets/handlebars/development and vendor/assets/handlebars/production respectively.