Question

I am using stache for server-side evaluation of Mustache templates. I would like to re-use some of these templates on the client-side from JavaScript using ICanHaz.js, but to do so I need to include them into script tags. I would like to avoid duplicating the templates (DRY), but obviously, the templates must not be evaluated before being sent to the client, so using a simple render :partial invocation like in this (HAML) snippet does not work:

%script{:id => 'project_snippet'}
  = render :partial => 'project'

Is there any way to include a partial without evaluating it using the underlying template engine (kind of like a raw include)?

In other places the partial is to be used as regular partial, i.e., evaluation is supposed to happen, so changing the file extension to always avoid evaluation is not an option.

Answer 1

Well, it seems that I should have read the stache documentation: There is a tag helper available, so

= template_include_tag 'projects/project'

will do the trick after setting the template base directory in an initializer:

Stache.configure do |c|
  c.template_base_path = "#{Rails.root}/app/views"
end