Adds your HTML templates into Angular's $templateCache
using Rails asset pipeline.
IMPORTANT: for Rails 4.2+ use version 1.0+ of this gem. For Rails 3 - 4.1 use version 0.x
Branch | Build Status |
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master | |
0-x-stable |
It removes the need for AJAX calls to retrieve the templates (or for you to manually set them into the DOM).
In Gemfile
gem 'angular-rails-templates'
Then, in your application.js
file, require angular-rails-templates
and your templates:
//= require angularjs
// ...
//= require angular-rails-templates
//
// Templates in app/assets/javascript/templates
//= require_tree ./templates
// OR
// Templates in app/assets/templates (but see step 5)
//= require_tree ../templates
Make sure to require angular-rails-templates
before you require your templates.
Name your templates like you would name any other Rails view. The .html
part is required. If it is not present your views will not be added to angular's template cache.
foo.html
foo.html.erb
foo.html.haml
foo.html.slim
Angular Rails Templates will try to load support for the following markups if their gems are present:
Extension | Required gem |
---|---|
.erb | - |
.str | - |
.haml | haml |
.slim | slim |
.md | liquid, rdiscount, redcarpet, bluecloth, kramdown, maruku |
See Advanced if you would like to use other markup languages.
Your Angular module needs to depend on the templates
module. (configurable, see Advanced Configuration)
angular.module('myApplication', ['templates']);
No matter what the source file extension is, your template's url will be #{base_name}.html
For example:
main.html => main.html
widget.html.haml => widget.html
modals/confirm.html.slim => modals/confirm.html
modals/dialog.html.slim.erb.str => modals/dialog.html # don't do this
The templates can then be accessed via templateUrl
as expected:
// Template: app/assets/templates/yourTemplate.html.haml
{
templateUrl: 'yourTemplate.html'
}
Or anything else that uses $templateCache
or $templateRequest
<div ng-include='"yourTemplate.html"'></div>
If you have app/assets/javascript/user.js
and app/assets/templates/user.html
, the former one will actually hide the latter. This is due to how Rails asset pipeline sees asset files, both are served under /assets/user.js
. Please use namespacing to combat this issue.
Angular Rails Templates has some configuration options that can be set inside config/application.rb
Here are their default values:
# config/application.rb
config.angular_templates.module_name = 'templates'
config.angular_templates.ignore_prefix = %w(templates/)
config.angular_templates.inside_paths = ['app/assets']
config.angular_templates.markups = %w(erb str haml slim md)
config.angular_templates.extension = 'html'
This configures the module name that your templates will be placed into. It is used to generate javascript like:
angular.module("<%= module_name %>")...
Although it is not recommended, you can set module_name
to the name of your main application module and remove require angular-rails-templates
from your javascript manifest to have your templates directly injected into your app.
If you place your templates in app/assets/templates
this option is mostly useless.
ignore_prefix
will be stripped from the beginning of the templateUrl
it reports to angularjs.
Since the default ignore_prefix is [templates/
], any templates placed under app/assets/javascripts/templates
will automatically have short names. If your templates are not in this location, you will need to use the full path to the template.
You can set config.angular_templates.ignore_prefix
to change the default ignore prefix. Default is [templates/
].
// Templates in: app/assets/javascripts/templates (default)
// ignore_prefix: templates/ (default)
{
templateUrl: 'yourTemplate.html'
}
// This won't work:
{
templateUrl: 'templates/yourTemplate.html'
}
// Templates in: app/assets/javascripts/my_app/templates (custom)
// ignore_prefix: templates/ (default)
{
templateUrl: 'my_app/templates/yourTemplate.html'
}
// ignore_prefix: my_app/templates/ (custom)
{
templateUrl: 'yourTemplate.html'
}
Templates only from paths matched by inside_paths
will be used. By default anything under app/assets can be templates. This option is useful if you are using this gem inside an engine. Also useful if you DON'T want some files to be processed by this gem (see issue #88)
Any markup that Tilt supports can be used, but you may need to add a gem to your Gemfile. See Tilt for a list of the supported markups and required libraries.
# Gemfile
gem "asciidoctor"
gem "radius"
gem "creole"
gem "tilt-handlebars"
# config/application.rb
config.angular_templates.markups.push 'asciidoc', 'radius', 'wiki', 'hbs'
If you would like to use a non-standard extension or you would like to use a custom template, you just need to tell Tilt about it.
# config/initializers/angular_rails_templates.rb
Tilt.register Tilt::HamlTemplate, 'nghaml'
# config/application.rb
config.angular_templates.markups.push 'nghaml'
Note: You would still need to use foo
.html
.nghaml
By default this gem looks only at templates with .html
suffix, eg. foo.html
or foo.html.haml
. This extension allows you to change that to another extension
MIT License. Copyright 2016 pitr
- Damien Mathieu [email protected]
- pitr [email protected]
- Jeremy Ebler [email protected]
- Chris Nelson [email protected]