Custom rendering for handlebars

#1

I have to reuse some given handlebars-templates in my middleman-project. So my plan would be to call a .hbs-partial, instead of haml-partials, like i did in rest of project.

I think, what i need is smth like this: https://gist.github.com/audionerd/2026206

I adapted this for handlebars and updated my gemfile accordingly:

gem 'handlebars'
gem 'tilt-handlebars'

As I am not that used with ruby, I have no idea where to put the module-code. Tried to call it from config.rb like this:

require 'helpers/handlebars_helper'
helpers Handlebars

But this does not work, so i think this is the wrong way…

Can somebody help me out here how to include this into my project?

Thanks!

#2

Actually I was probably searching too wide. Just including the Gems seems to load the partial correctly.
Sadly, this is a partial, which was made with the npm handlebars-helpers, which are not available as rubygem, so i have to find another solution for that one.

#3

Are you trying to use Handlebars lang instead of ERB or Haml?

If you are just trying to use Handlebars in javascript, you can try the handlebars_assets gem, which works well for me in ruby projects, incl. Middleman.

Then in your config.rb you just need:

require 'handlebars_assets'

ready do
   sprockets.append_path HandlebarsAssets.path
end

and you’ll be able to use handlebars templates in your JS out of the box. See the gem readme for more info.

#4

I’ll try actually to use handlebars together with haml. So i have a HAML-view and like to include a handlebars-partial. Actually, this works now for me, but not with the according handlebars-helpers from assemble.

I know, complicated case, but i have to mix up a middleman-project with a gulp-project, i think this won’t work, so I have somehow to duplicate those views and convert the handlebars to haml.