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Slim

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Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.

A short list of the features...

  • Short syntax without closing tags (Using indentation instead)
  • Embedded engines like Markdown and Textile
  • Configurable shortcut tags (# for div id and . for div class in the default configuration)
  • Automatic HTML escaping and support for Rails' html_safe?
  • HTML style mode with closing tags
  • Logic less mode similar to Mustache, realized as plugin
  • Translator/I18n, realized as plugin
  • Highly configurable and extendable
  • High performance (Comparable to ERB)
  • Supported by all major frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, ...)
  • Streaming support in Rails

Introduction

What is Slim?

Slim is a fast, lightweight templating engine with support for Rails 3. It has been heavily tested on all major ruby implementations. We use continous integration (travis-ci).

Slim's core syntax is guided by one thought: "What's the minimum required to make this work".

As more people have contributed to Slim, there have been syntax additions influenced from their use of Haml and Jade. The Slim team is open to these additions because we know beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Slim uses Temple for parsing/compilation and is also integrated into Tilt, so it can be used together with Sinatra or plain Rack.

The architecture of Temple is very flexible and allows the extension of the parsing and compilation process without monkey-patching. This is used by the logic less plugin and the translator plugin which provides I18n.

Why use Slim?

Within the Rails community, Erb and Haml are without doubt the two most popular templating engines. However, Erb's syntax is cumbersome and Haml's syntax can be quite cryptic to the uninitiated.

Slim was born to bring a minimalist syntax approach with speed. If people chose not to use Slim, it would not be because of speed.

Yes, Slim is speedy! Benchmarks are provided at the end of this README file. Don't trust the numbers? That's as it should be. Therefore we provide a benchmark rake task so you could test it yourself (rake bench).

How to start?

Install Slim as a gem:

gem install slim

Include Slim in your Gemfile with gem 'slim' or require it with require 'slim'. That's it! Now, just use the .slim extension and you're good to go.

Syntax example

Here's a quick example to demonstrate what a Slim template looks like:

doctype html
html
  head
    title Slim Examples
    meta name="keywords" content="template language"
    meta name="author" content=author
    link rel="icon" type="image/png" href=file_path("favicon.png")
    javascript:
      alert('Slim supports embedded javascript!')

  body
    h1 Markup examples

    #content
      p This example shows you how a basic Slim file looks like.

    = yield

    - if items.any?
      table#items
        - for item in items do
          tr
            td.name = item.name
            td.price = item.price
    - else
      p No items found Please add some inventory.
        Thank you!

    div id="footer"
      = render 'footer'
      | Copyright &copy; #{year} #{author}

Indentation matters, but the indentation depth can be chosen as you like. If you want to first indent 2 spaces, then 5 spaces, it's your choice. To nest markup you only need to indent by one space, the rest is gravy.

Line indicators

Text |

The pipe tells Slim to just copy the line. It essentially escapes any processing. Each following line that is indented greater than the backtick is copied over.

body
  p
    |
      This is a test of the text block.

The parsed result of the above:

<body><p>This is a test of the text block.</p></body>

The left margin is set at the indent of the backtick + one space. Any additional spaces will be copied over.

body
  p
    |  This line is on the left margin.
        This line will have one space in front of it.
          This line will have two spaces in front of it.
            And so on...

You can also embed html in the text line

- articles.each do |a|
  | <tr><td>#{a.name}</td><td>#{a.description}</td></tr>

Text with trailing space '

The single quote tells Slim to copy the line (similar to |), but makes sure that a single trailing space is appended.

Inline html < (HTML style)

You can write html tags directly in Slim which allows you to write your templates in a more html like style with closing tags or mix html and Slim style.

<html>
  head
    title Example
  <body>
    - if articles.empty?
    - else
      table
        - articles.each do |a|
          <tr><td>#{a.name}</td><td>#{a.description}</td></tr>
  </body>
</html>

Control code -

The dash denotes control code. Examples of control code are loops and conditionals. end is forbidden behind -. Blocks are defined only by indentation. If your ruby code needs to use multiple lines, append a backslash \ at the end of the lines.

body
  - if articles.empty?
    | No inventory

Dynamic output =

The equal sign tells Slim it's a Ruby call that produces output to add to the buffer. If your ruby code needs to use multiple lines, append a backslash \ at the end of the lines, for example:

= javascript_include_tag \
   "jquery", \
   "application"

Output with trailing white space ='

Same as the single equal sign (=), except that it adds a trailing whitespace.

Output without HTML escaping ==

Same as the single equal sign (=), but does not go through the escape_html method.

Output without HTML escaping and trailing ws =='

Same as the double equal sign (==), except that it adds a trailing whitespace.

Code comment /

Use the forward slash for code comments - anything after it won't get displayed in the final render. Use / for code comments and /! for html comments

body
  p
    / This line won't get displayed.
      Neither does this line.
    /! This will get displayed as html comments.

The parsed result of the above:

<body><p><!--This will get displayed as html comments.--></p></body>

HTML comment /!

Use the forward slash immediately followed by an exclamation mark for html comments (<!-- ... -->).

IE conditional comment /[...]

/[if IE]
    p Get a better browser.

renders as

<!--[if IE]><p>Get a better browser.</p><![endif]-->

HTML tags

Doctype tag

The doctype tag is a special tag which can be used to generate the complex doctypes in a very simple way.

XML VERSION

doctype xml
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

doctype xml ISO-8859-1
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

XHTML DOCTYPES

doctype html
  <!DOCTYPE html>

doctype 5
  <!DOCTYPE html>

doctype 1.1
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

doctype strict
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

doctype frameset
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

doctype mobile
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN"
    "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">

doctype basic
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">

doctype transitional
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

HTML 4 DOCTYPES

doctype strict
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

doctype frameset
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

doctype transitional
  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Closed tags (trailing /)

You can close tags explicitly by appending a trailing /.

img src="image.png"/

Note, that this is usually not necessary since the standard html tags (img, br, ...) are closed automatically.

Inline tags

Sometimes you may want to be a little more compact and inline the tags.

ul
  li.first: a href="/a" A link
  li: a href="/b" B link

For readability, don't forget you can wrap the attributes.

ul
  li.first: a[href="/a"] A link
  li: a[href="/b"] B link

Text content

Either start on the same line as the tag

body
  h1 id="headline" Welcome to my site.

Or nest it. You must use a pipe or a backtick to escape processing

body
  h1 id="headline"
    | Welcome to my site.

Dynamic content (= and ==)

Can make the call on the same line

body
  h1 id="headline" = page_headline

Or nest it.

body
  h1 id="headline"
    = page_headline

Attributes

You write attributes directly after the tag. For normal text attributes you must use double " or single quotes ' (Quoted attributes).

a href="http://slim-lang.com" title='Slim Homepage' Goto the Slim homepage

You can use text interpolation in the quoted attributes.

Attributes wrapper

If a delimiter makes the syntax more readable for you, you can use the characters {...}, (...), [...] to wrap the attributes.

body
  h1(id="logo") = page_logo
  h2[id="tagline" class="small tagline"] = page_tagline

If you wrap the attributes, you can spread them across multiple lines:

h2[id="tagline"
   class="small tagline"] = page_tagline

Quoted attributes

Example:

a href="http://slim-lang.com" title='Slim Homepage' Goto the Slim homepage

You can use text interpolation in the quoted attributes:

a href="http://#{url}" Goto the #{url}

The attribute value will be escaped by default. Use == if you want to disable escaping in the attribute.

a href=="&amp;"

Ruby attributes

Write the ruby code directly after the =. If the code contains spaces you have to wrap the code into parentheses (...), {...} or [...]. The code in the parentheses will be evaluated.

body
  table
    - for user in users do
      td id="user_#{user.id}" class=user.role
        a href=user_action(user, :edit) Edit #{user.name}
        a href={path_to_user user} = user.name

The attribute value will be escaped by default. Use == if you want to disable escaping in the attribute.

a href==action_path(:start)

Boolean attributes

The attribute values true, false and nil are interpreted as booleans. If you use the attribut wrapper you can omit the attribute assigment

input type="text" disabled="disabled"
input type="text" disabled=true
input(type="text" disabled)

input type="text"
input type="text" disabled=false
input type="text" disabled=nil

Splat attributes *

The splat shortcut allows you turn a hash in to attribute/value pairs

.card*{'data-url'=>place_path(place), 'data-id'=>place.id} = place.name
.card *method_which_returns_hash = place.name
.card *@hash_instance_variable = place.name

renders as

<div class="card" data-id="1234" data-url="/place/1234">Slim's house</div>

ID shortcut # and class shortcut .

Similarly to Haml, you can specify the id and class attributes in the following shortcut form

body
  h1#headline
    = page_headline
  h2#tagline.small.tagline
    = page_tagline
  .content
    = show_content

This is the same as

body
  h1 id="headline"
    = page_headline
  h2 id="tagline" class="small tagline"
    = page_tagline
  div class="content"
    = show_content

Attribute shortcuts

You can define custom shortcuts (Similar to # for id and . for class).

In this example we add @ to create a shortcut for the role attribute.

Slim::Engine.set_default_options :shortcut => {'@' => 'role', '#' => 'id', '.' => 'class'}

We can use it in Slim code like this

.person@admin = person.name

which renders to

<div class="person" role="admin">Daniel</div>

Text interpolation

Use standard Ruby interpolation. The text will be html escaped by default.

body
  h1 Welcome #{current_user.name} to the show.
  | Unescaped #{{content}} is also possible.

To escape the interpolation (i.e. render as is)

body
  h1 Welcome \#{current_user.name} to the show.

Embedded engines (Markdown, ...)

Thanks to Tilt, Slim has impressive support for embedding other template engines.

Examples:

coffee:
  square = (x) -> x * x

markdown:
  #Header
    Hello from #{"Markdown!"}
    Second Line!

Supported engines:

FilterRequired gemsTypeDescription
ruby:noneShortcutShortcut to embed ruby code
javascript:noneShortcutShortcut to embed javascript code and wrap in script tag
css:noneShortcutShortcut to embed css code and wrap in style tag
sass:sassCompile timeEmbed sass code and wrap in style tag
scss:sassCompile timeEmbedd scss code and wrap in style tag
less:lessCompile timeEmbed less css code and wrap in style tag
styl:stylCompile timeEmbed stylus css code and wrap in style tag
coffee:coffee-scriptCompile timeCompile coffee script code and wrap in script tag
markdown:redcarpet/rdiscount/kramdownCompile time + InterpolationCompile markdown code and interpolate #\{variables} in text
textile:redclothCompile time + InterpolationCompile textile code and interpolate #\{variables} in text
creole:creoleCompile time + InterpolationCompile creole code and interpolate #\{variables} in text
wiki:, mediawiki:wikiclothCompile time + InterpolationCompile wiki code and interpolate #\{variables} in text
rdoc:rdocCompile time + InterpolationCompile rdoc code and interpolate #\{variables} in text
builder:builderPrecompiledEmbed builder code
nokogiri:nokogiriPrecompiledEmbed nokogiri builder code
erb:nonePrecompiledEmbed erb code

The embedded engines can be configured in Slim by setting the options directly on the Slim::EmbeddedEngine filter. Example:

Slim::EmbeddedEngine.default_options[:markdown] = {:auto_ids => false}

Configuring Slim

Slim and the underlying Temple framework are highly configurable. The way how you configure Slim depends a bit on the compilation mechanism (Rails or Tilt). It is always possible to set default options per Slim::Engine class. This can be done in Rails' environment files. For instance, in config/environments/development.rb you probably want:

Default options

# Indent html for pretty debugging and do not sort attributes (Ruby 1.8)
Slim::Engine.set_default_options :pretty => true, :sort_attrs => false

# Indent html for pretty debugging and do not sort attributes (Ruby 1.9)
Slim::Engine.set_default_options pretty: true, sort_attrs: false

You can also access the option hash directly:

Slim::Engine.default_options[:pretty] = true

Setting options at runtime

There are two ways to set options at runtime. For Tilt templates (Slim::Template) you can set the options when you instatiate the template:

Slim::Template.new('template.slim', optional_option_hash).render(scope)

The other possibility is to set the options per thread which is interesting mostly for Rails:

Slim::Engine.with_options(option_hash) do
   # Any Slim engines which are created here use the option_hash
   # For example in Rails:
   render :page, :layout => true
end

You have to be aware that the compiled engine code and the options are cached per template in Rails and you cannot change the option afterwards.

# First render call
Slim::Engine.with_options(:pretty => true) do
   render :page, :layout => true
end

# Second render call
Slim::Engine.with_options(:pretty => false) do
   render :page, :layout => true # :pretty is still true because it is cached
end

Available options

The following options are exposed by the Slim::Engine and can be set with Slim::Engine.set_default_options. There are a lot of them but the good thing is, that Slim checks the configuration keys and reports an error if you try to use an invalid configuration key.

TypeNameDefaultPurpose
String:filenilName of parsed file, set automatically by Slim::Template
Integer:tabsize4Number of whitespaces per tab (used by the parser)
String:encoding"utf-8"Set encoding of template
String:default_tag"div"Default tag to be used if tag name is omitted
Hash:shortcut\{'.' => 'class', '#' => 'id'}Attribute shortcuts
Symbol/String list:enable_enginesnil (All enabled)List of enabled embedded engines (whitelist)
Symbol/String list:disable_enginesnil (None disabled)List of disabled embedded engines (blacklist)
Boolean:disable_capturefalse (true in Rails)Disable capturing in blocks (blocks write to the default buffer
Boolean:disable_escapefalseDisable automatic escaping of strings
Boolean:escape_quoted_attrsfalseEscape quoted attributes
Boolean:use_html_safefalse (true in Rails)Use String#html_safe? from ActiveSupport (Works together with :disable_escape)
Symbol:format:xhtmlHTML output format (Possible formats :xhtml, :html4, :html5, :html)
String:attr_wrapper'"'Character to wrap attributes in html (can be ' or ")
Hash:attr_delimiter\{'class' => ' '}Joining character used if multiple html attributes are supplied (e.g. class="class1 class2")
Boolean:sort_attrstrueSort attributes by name
Boolean:prettyfalsePretty html indenting (This is slower!)
String:indent' 'Indentation string
Boolean:streamingfalse (true in Rails > 3.1)Enable output streaming
Class:generatorTemple::Generators::ArrayBuffer/RailsOutputBufferTemple code generator (default generator generates array buffer)
String:buffer'_buf' ('@output_buffer' in Rails)Variable used for buffer

There are more options which are supported by the Temple filters but which are not exposed and are not officially supported. You have to take a look at the Slim and Temple code for that.

Option priority and inheritance

For developers who know more about Slim and Temple architecture it is possible to override default options at different positions. Temple uses an inheritance mechanism to allow subclasses to override options of the superclass. The option priorities are as follows:

  1. Slim::Template options passed at engine instatination
  2. Slim::Template.default_options
  3. Slim::Engine.thread_options, Slim::Engine.default_options
  4. Parser/Filter/Generator thread_options, default_options (e.g Slim::Parser, Slim::Compiler)

It is also possible to set options for superclasses like Temple::Engine. But this will affect all temple template engines then.

Slim::Engine < Temple::Engine
Slim::Compiler < Temple::Filter

Plugins

Logic less mode

Logic less mode is inspired by Mustache. Logic less mode uses a dictionary object e.g. a recursive hash tree which contains the dynamic content.

Conditional

If the object is not false or empty?, the content will show

- article
  h1 = title

Inverted conditional

If the object is false or empty?, the content will show

-! article
  p Sorry, article not found

Iteration

If the object is an array, the section will iterate

- articles
  tr: td = title

Wrapped dictionary - Resolution order

Example code:

- article
  h1 = title

In wrapped dictionary acccess mode (the default, see the options), the dictionary object is accessed in the following order.

  1. If article.respond_to?(:title), Slim will execute article.send(:title)
  2. If article.respond_to?(:has_key?) and article.has_key?(:title), Slim will execute article[:title]
  3. If article.instance_variable_defined?(@title), Slim will execute article.instance_variable_get @title

If all the above fails, Slim will try to resolve the title reference in the same order against the parent object. In this example, the parent would be the dictionary object you are rendering the template against.

As you might have guessed, the article reference goes through the same steps against the dictionary. Instance variables are not allowed in the view code, but Slim will find and use them. Essentially, you're just using dropping the @ prefix in your template. Parameterized method calls are not allowed.

Logic less in Rails

Install:

$ gem install slim

Require:

gem 'slim', :require => 'slim/logic_less'

You might want to activate logic less mode only for a few actions, you should disable logic-less mode globally at first in the configuration

Slim::Engine.set_default_options :logic_less => false

and activate logic less mode per render call in your action

class Controller
  def action
    Slim::Engine.with_options(:logic_less => true) do
      render
    end
  end
end

Logic less in Sinatra

Sinata has built-in support for Slim. All you have to do is require the logic less Slim plugin. This can be done in your config.ru:

require 'slim/logic_less'

You are then ready to rock!

You might want to activate logic less mode only for a few actions, you should disable logic-less mode globally at first in the configuration

Slim::Engine.set_default_options :logic_less => false

and activate logic less mode per render call in your application

get '/page'
  slim :page, :logic_less => true
end

Options

TypeNameDefaultPurpose
Boolean:logic_lesstrueEnable logic less mode (Enabled if 'slim/logic_less' is required)
String:dictionary"self"Dictionary where variables are looked up
Symbol:dictionary_access:wrappedDictionary access mode (:string, :symbol, :wrapped)

Translator/I18n

The translator plugin provides automatic translation of the templates using Gettext, Fast-Gettext or Rails I18n. Static text in the template is replaced by the translated version.

Example:

h1 Welcome to #{url}!

Gettext translates the string from english to german where interpolations are replaced by %1, %2, ...

"Welcome to %1!" -> "Willkommen auf %1!"

and renders as

<h1>Willkommen auf slim-lang.com!</h1>

Enable the translator plugin with

require 'slim/translator'

Options

TypeNameDefaultPurpose
Boolean:trtrueEnable translator (Enabled if 'slim/translator' is required)
Symbol:tr_mode:dynamicWhen to translate: :static = at compile time, :dynamic = at runtime
String:tr_fnDepending on installed translation libraryTranslation function, could be '_' for gettext

Framework support

Tilt

Slim uses Tilt to compile the generated code. If you want to use the Slim template directly, you can use the Tilt interface.

Tilt.new['template.slim'].render(scope)
Slim::Template.new('template.slim', optional_option_hash).render(scope)
Slim::Template.new(optional_option_hash) { source }.render(scope)

The optional option hash can have to options which were documented in the section above.

Sinatra

require 'sinatra'
require 'slim'

get('/') { slim :index }

 __END__
@@ index
doctype html
html
  head
    title Sinatra With Slim
  body
    h1 Slim Is Fun!

Rails

Rails generators are provided by slim-rails. slim-rails is not necessary to use Slim in Rails though. Just install Slim and add it to your Gemfile with gem 'slim'. Then just use the .slim extension and you're good to go.

Streaming

HTTP streaming is enabled enabled by default if you use a Rails version which supports it.

Tools

Slim Command 'slimrb'

The gem 'slim' comes with the small tool 'slimrb' to test Slim from the command line.

$ slimrb --help
Usage: slimrb [options]
    -s, --stdin                      Read input from standard input instead of an input file
        --trace                      Show a full traceback on error
    -c, --compile                    Compile only but do not run
    -r, --rails                      Generate rails compatible code (Implies --compile)
    -t, --translator                 Enable translator plugin
    -l, --logic-less                 Enable logic less plugin
    -p, --pretty                     Produce pretty html
    -o, --option [NAME=CODE]         Set slim option
    -h, --help                       Show this message
    -v, --version                    Print version

Start 'slimrb', type your code and press Ctrl-d to send EOF. Example usage:

$ slimrb
markdown:
  First paragraph.

  Second paragraph.

  * one
  * two
  * three

//Enter Ctrl-d
<p>First paragraph </p>

<p>Second paragraph </p>

<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
</ul>

Syntax Highlighters

There are plugins for various text editors (including the most important ones - Vim, Emacs and Textmate):

Template Converters (HAML, ERB, ...)

Testing

Benchmarks

The benchmarks demonstrate that Slim in production mode is nearly as fast as Erubis (which is the fastest template engine). So if you choose not to use Slim it is not due to its speed.

Run the benchmarks with rake bench. You can add the option slow to run the slow parsing benchmark which needs more time. You can also increase the number of iterations.

rake bench slow=1 iterations=1000
Linux + Ruby 1.9.3, 1000 iterations

                      user     system      total        real
(1) erb           0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.017383)
(1) erubis        0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.015048)
(1) fast erubis   0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.015372) <===
(1) temple erb    0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.026239)
(1) slim pretty   0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.031463)
(1) slim ugly     0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.018868) <===
(1) haml pretty   0.130000   0.000000   0.130000 (  0.122521)
(1) haml ugly     0.110000   0.000000   0.110000 (  0.106640)
(2) erb           0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.035520)
(2) erubis        0.020000   0.000000   0.020000 (  0.023070)
(2) temple erb    0.040000   0.000000   0.040000 (  0.036514)
(2) slim pretty   0.040000   0.000000   0.040000 (  0.040086)
(2) slim ugly     0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.028461)
(2) haml pretty   0.150000   0.000000   0.150000 (  0.145618)
(2) haml ugly     0.130000   0.000000   0.130000 (  0.129492)
(3) erb           0.140000   0.000000   0.140000 (  0.134953)
(3) erubis        0.120000   0.000000   0.120000 (  0.119723)
(3) fast erubis   0.100000   0.000000   0.100000 (  0.097456)
(3) temple erb    0.040000   0.000000   0.040000 (  0.035916)
(3) slim pretty   0.040000   0.000000   0.040000 (  0.039626)
(3) slim ugly     0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.027827)
(3) haml pretty   0.310000   0.000000   0.310000 (  0.306664)
(3) haml ugly     0.250000   0.000000   0.250000 (  0.248742)
(4) erb           0.350000   0.000000   0.350000 (  0.350719)
(4) erubis        0.310000   0.000000   0.310000 (  0.304832)
(4) fast erubis   0.300000   0.000000   0.300000 (  0.303070)
(4) temple erb    0.910000   0.000000   0.910000 (  0.911745)
(4) slim pretty   3.410000   0.000000   3.410000 (  3.413267)
(4) slim ugly     2.880000   0.000000   2.880000 (  2.885265)
(4) haml pretty   2.280000   0.000000   2.280000 (  2.292623)
(4) haml ugly     2.170000   0.000000   2.170000 (  2.169292)

(1) Compiled benchmark. Template is parsed before the benchmark and
    generated ruby code is compiled into a method.
    This is the fastest evaluation strategy because it benchmarks
    pure execution speed of the generated ruby code.

(2) Compiled Tilt benchmark. Template is compiled with Tilt, which gives a more
    accurate result of the performance in production mode in frameworks like
    Sinatra, Ramaze and Camping. (Rails still uses its own template
    compilation.)

(3) Cached benchmark. Template is parsed before the benchmark.
    The ruby code generated by the template engine might be evaluated every time.
    This benchmark uses the standard API of the template engine.

(4) Parsing benchmark. Template is parsed every time.
    This is not the recommended way to use the template engine
    and Slim is not optimized for it. Activate this benchmark with 'rake bench slow=1'.

Temple ERB is the ERB implementation using the Temple framework. It shows the
overhead added by the Temple framework compared to ERB.

Test suite and continous integration

Slim provides an extensive test-suite based on minitest. You can run the tests with 'rake test' and the rails integration tests with 'rake test:rails'.

Travis-CI is used for continous integration testing: {http://travis-ci.org/#!/stonean/slim}

Slim is working well on all major Ruby implementations:

  • Ruby 1.8.7
  • Ruby 1.9.2
  • Ruby 1.9.3
  • Ruby EE
  • JRuby
  • Rubinius 2.0

Contributing

If you'd like to help improve Slim, clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/stonean/slim

Work your magic and then submit a pull request. We love pull requests!

Please remember to test against Ruby versions 1.9.2 and 1.8.7.

If you find the documentation lacking (and you probably will), help us out The docs are located in the gh-pages branch:

$ git checkout gh-pages

If you don't have the time to work on Slim, but found something we should know about, please submit an issue.

License

Slim is released under the MIT license.

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