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Liquid is a template engine which I wrote for very specific requirements Liquid is a template engine which was crafted for very specific requirements
It has to have beautiful and simple markup. Template engines which don't produce good looking markup are no fun to use. * It has to have beautiful and simple markup. Template engines which don't produce good looking markup are no fun to use.
It needs to be non evaling and secure. Liquid templates are made so that users can edit them. You don't want to run code on your server which your users wrote. * It needs to be non evaling and secure. Liquid templates are made so that users can edit them. You don't want to run code on your server which your users wrote.
It has to be stateless. Compile and render steps have to be separate so that the expensive parsing and compiling can be done once and later on you can just render it passing in a hash with local variables and objects. * It has to be stateless. Compile and render steps have to be separate so that the expensive parsing and compiling can be done once and later on you can just render it passing in a hash with local variables and objects.
It needs to be able to style emails as well as html. * It needs to be able to style emails as well as html.
Stuff to read
HowTo - Liquid usage h2. Stuff to read
DesignerHowTo - For the designers
HowToPatch - How you can help the liquid project with patches
RailsPlugin - Using Liquid as a rails plugin
Stuff to watch
Liquid installation movie * [[Liquid for Programmers]]
Why should I use Liquid? * [[Liquid for Designers]]
You want to allow your users to edit the appearance of your application but don't want them to run insecure code on your server. h2. Why should I use Liquid?
You want to render templates directly from the database
You like Smarty-style template engines * You want to allow your users to edit the appearance of your application but don't want them to run insecure code on your server.
You need a template engine which does HTML just as well as Emails * You want to render templates directly from the database
You don't like the markup of your current one * You like Smarty-style template engines
* You need a template engine which does HTML just as well as Emails
* You don't like the markup of your current one