CommaParty

CommaParty is a Ruby implementation of Clojure's Hiccup HTML generation library. It uses arrays to represent elements, and hashes to represent an element's attributes. Unlike in Clojure, you have to use a lot of commas everywhere all the time.

Add the following dependency to your Gemfile:

gem 'commaparty'

then

require 'commaparty'

Here is a basic example of commaparty syntax:

[1] pry(main)> require 'commaparty'
=> true
[2] pry(main)> CommaParty.markup([:span, {class: "foo"}, "bar"])
=> "<span class=\"foo\">bar</span>"

The first element of the array is used as the element name. The second attribute can optionally be a hash, in which case it is used to supply the element's attributes. Every other element is considered part of the tag's body.

It provides a CSS-like shortcut for denoting id and class attributes:

[1] pry(main)> CommaParty.markup([:'div#foo.bar.baz', "bang"])
=> "<div class=\"bar baz\" id=\"foo\">bang</div>"

If the body of the element is an array, its contents will be expanded out into the element body. This makes working with methods like map more convenient:

[2] pry(main)> CommaParty.markup([:ul, (1..4).map {|n| [:li, n]}])
=> "<ul>\n<li>1</li>\n<li>2</li>\n<li>3</li>\n<li>4</li>\n</ul>"