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jferris
effigy
Ruby2009–2011
jferris / effigy

effigy

Ruby views without a templating language

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205GitHub stars
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What it is

Ruby views without a templating language

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-12-01 03:32:14 UTC to 2011-01-10 07:14:15 UTC.

012009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2011

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 20092009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jan 20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20102010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20102010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20102010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20102010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20102010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20102010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20102010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20102010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20102010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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zach·Jan 10, 2011
If you're interested in playing with selector-based templating in Rails, there's a very interesting library called Effigy which does this. https://github.com/jferris/effigy It seems like a great way to keep design from getting too tightly coupled with a changing app. It would be great if there was some way to "precompile" the selectors and use this as a performant replacement for messy templates.
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