On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:45 PM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two of my current projects involve validated persons filling forms with name > and date. > > I've seen a few places in whimsy where such things are done, and I'm > wondering if there is a current best practice. Is there perhaps a helper > method somewhere that takes a couple of file identifiers and a hash of > name/value pairs and looks in the document for a match for "name" and then > replaces some number of _________________ with the desired substitute string > "value" and then commits the new file to its proper place? > > If no such helper exists, where should I put it? What should I call it?
What we have today is ad-hoc. I suggest that going forward we make use of: https://rubygems.org/gems/mustache/ In part due to its cross-language support: https://mustache.github.io/ I'm in the process of converting the templates used by the board agenda tool to mustache format: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board/templates > Thanks, > Craig > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org - Sam Ruby