Question

I am using slim for a project outside rails. I see that slimrb gives options to compile the templates to html from command line.

1) However is there a way to compile a complete view directory to html.
2) Also is it possible to watch for changes and, continuously update the generated html, like what compass does for .scss files.

Answer 1

1) To compile all files in a directory from slim to html cd into it and type slimrb * and then hit tab to expand * into all filenames in that directory. Since it is a view directory there should be no other files then *.slim

2) Slim itself doesn’t imlement this, but it shouldn’t be too hard to write a script which listens for filesystem events and triggers based on which file was changed the slimrb executable.