Script to convert to and from HTML/ERb? about fortitude HOT 3 CLOSED

@croaky Have you seen html2fortitude? ISTR it needs a little cleanup, but I was able to get that working for a one-off conversion a couple of months ago.

That bit in Erector::Erect#to_html looks Useful; I've been futzing around with rails console, instantiating and calling #to_html on my own widgets manually, but that won't fly for everything (cough Rails action views cough). Thanks for pointing that out.

@ageweke, I haven't stumbled across anything that maps directly to what he's asking for on the Fortitude-to-HTML side; have I missed something or would bringing up a quick fortitude2html project based on that Erector code be worthwhile?

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Nice, thanks! I hadn't seen html2fortitude so thanks for pointing it out.

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@croaky, sorry that html2fortitude isn’t documented yet! As I push forward on Fortitude, that’s on my (long!) list of things to document.

@jdickey and @croaky, I’m not sure how a general-purpose .html.rb —> .html converter would work. If widgets have no needs and don’t use any helpers that require access to data, then, sure, it wouldn’t be too hard…but my gut says that this likely isn’t a common case — since, if what you have is effectively static HTML, why not just write it as static HTML in the first place?

(I recognize the irony in this, in that I’m writing Fortitude’s docs exactly as Fortitude widgets that create static HTML. They’re getting built using Middleman, which can also be seen as a tool that does exactly that: bulk conversion of .html.rb (and .html.erb, and so on) to HTML, in a controlled manner.)

If you have a specific, reasonably-common use case in mind for .html.rb —> .html, I’d be more than happy to give it a shot — I’m just not sure enough exactly what that is yet in order to feel like I could do a good job on it.

Thanks!
Andrew

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