Overview

Mold is a view template handler for Rails 3+ that renders Ruby objects to JSON.

Compatibility

Mold is compatible with Rails Rails 3.x.

Installation

Install Mold as a gem:

gem install mold

or add to your Gemfile:

gem 'mold'

Usage

It's pretty straight-forward to create a Mold JSON template, just create the structure as you would in a Hash:

# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class Users < ActionController:Base
  def show
      @user = User.first
  end
end

# app/views/users/show.mold
{
    :user => {
        :id   => @user.id,
        :name => @user.name
    }
}

You can also create and use view partials in Mold:

# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class Users < ActionController:Base
  def index
    @users = User.all
  end
end

# app/views/users/_user.json.mold
{
    :user => {
        :id   => user.id,
        :name => user.name
    }
}

# app/views/users/index.json.mold
{
    :users => @users.map{ |user| render(:partial => 'user', :object => user) }
}

Writing code in a Mold view also works:

# app/views/users/show.json.mold
time = Time.now

{
    :user => {
        :time => time
    }
}

Inspiration

This gem has been inspired mostly by ruby_template_handler.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Thiago Jackiw. See License.txt for details.