I've been having trouble switching from a default layout.erb file to an equivalent layout.haml file in Middleman. I want to use HAML for my layouts since I'm trying to become familiar with it, so I decided to replace the default layout with a HAML version. Unfortunately, when I replace layout.erb with layout.haml, I get this error:
NoMethodError at /
undefined method `force_encoding' for nil:NilClass
Ruby /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in ensure in binary, line 289
Web GET localhost/
Traceback (innermost first)
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in ensure in binary
string.force_encoding(original_encoding)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in binary
string.force_encoding(original_encoding)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in extract_magic_comment
binary script do...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in extract_encoding
extract_magic_comment(script) || script.encoding...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in precompiled
template_encoding = extract_encoding(template)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/erb.rb: in precompiled
source, offset = super...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/erb.rb: in precompiled
source, offset = super...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in compile_template_method
source, offset = precompiled(locals)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in compiled_method
compile_template_method(locals_keys)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in evaluate
method = compiled_method(locals.keys)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/tilt-1.4.1/lib/tilt/template.rb: in render
evaluate scope, locals || {}, &block...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/rendering.rb: in render_individual_file
content = template.render(context, locs, &block)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/rendering.rb: in render_template
content = render_individual_file(layout_path, locs, opts, context) { content }...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/sitemap/resource.rb: in block in render
app.render_template(source_file, locs, opts, blocks)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.4/lib/active_support/notifications.rb: in instrument
yield payload if block_given?...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/util.rb: in instrument
::ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument(suffixed_name, payload, &block)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/application.rb: in instrument
delegate :instrument, to: ::Middleman::Util...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/sitemap/resource.rb: in instrument
delegate :logger, :instrument, to: :app...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/sitemap/resource.rb: in render
instrument 'render.resource', path: relative_source, destination_path: destination_path do...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/request.rb: in process_request
output = resource.render do...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/request.rb: in block in call!
process_request(env, req, res)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/request.rb: in catch
catch(:halt) do...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/request.rb: in call!
catch(:halt) do...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/middleman-core-3.3.3/lib/middleman-core/core_extensions/request.rb: in call
dup.call!(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/builder.rb: in call
to_app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: in block in call
return app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: in each
#mapping.each do |host, location, match, app|...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/urlmap.rb: in call
#mapping.each do |host, location, match, app|...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/showexceptions.rb: in call
#app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/head.rb: in call
status, headers, body = #app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/lint.rb: in _call
status, headers, #body = #app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/lint.rb: in call
dup._call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/builder.rb: in call
to_app.call(env)...
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb: in service
status, headers, body = #app.call(env)...
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/webrick/httpserver.rb: in service
si.service(req, res)...
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/webrick/httpserver.rb: in run
server.service(req, res)...
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/webrick/server.rb: in block in start_thread
block ? block.call(sock) : run(sock)
layout.erb looks like this:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<!-- Always force latest IE rendering engine or request Chrome Frame -->
<meta content="IE=edge,chrome=1" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
<!-- Use title if it's in the page YAML frontmatter -->
<title><%= current_page.data.title || "The Middleman" %></title>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "normalize" %>
<!-- <%= stylesheet_link_tag "normalize", "all" %> -->
<%= javascript_include_tag "all" %>
</head>
<body class="<%= page_classes %>">
<%= partial "header" %>
<%= yield %>
<%= partial "footer" %>
</body>
</html>
layout.haml doesn't have quite the same content as layout.erb, but that doesn't seem to matter since it breaks no matter what:
!!!
%html
%head
%title
= current_page.data.title || "The Middleman"
= stylesheet_link_tag "normalize", "all"
= javascript_include_tag "all"
%body
= partial "header"
= yield
= partial "footer"
At first I thought the error was only ocurring because the HAML itself was broken, but even a very simple HAML file that defines only doctype, html, head, title and body tags breaks. I then suspected that only ERb files were being taken as layout files - which I confirmed by renaming layout.haml to layout.erb, which didn't cause an error but just displayed raw HAML code instead. Even keeping layout.erb and making a sublayout article_layout.haml causes a similar error when navigating to a blog article, while making an article_layout.erb works fine.
So, I suspect that Middleman just won't accept anything except ERb for layout files. I can't find a single thing about this in the documentation, though, and I've even seen examples that all have layout.haml files that work perfectly fine. Is mine just different? Is there a flag I need to set with middleman init in order to use HAML files for layouts? What's going on?
As #r.pazyaquian mentioned in the sub-comments, if you change your layout file type, make sure to restart the server.
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I have a Ruby program that reads a file and returns a certain output. I have to now create a web app of this program using Sinatra. I created a form with all the file options and I want to now run that Ruby code with that selected file from the form after the submit button is pressed.
Basically, I’m not sure how to get this external Ruby program to run with the the filename that was selected by the user from the HTML form.
The Ruby program (example.rb) starts with the definition def read_grammar_defs(filename).
// sinatra_main.rb
require 'sinatra'
require 'sinatra/reloader' if development? #gem install sinatra-contrib
require './rsg.rb'
get '/' do
erb :home
end
post '/p' do
//call program to read file with the parameter from form
end
// layout.erb
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title><%= #title || "RSG" %></title>
<meta charset="UTF8">
</head>
<body>
<h1>RubyRSG Demo</h1>
<p>Select grammar file to create randomly generated sentence</p>
<form action="/p" method="post">
<select name="grammar_file">
<option value="Select" hidden>Select</option>
<option value="Poem">Poem</option>
<option value="Insult">Insult</option>
<option value="Extension-request">Extension-request</option>
<option value="Bond-movie">Bond-movie</option>
</select>
<br><br>
</form>
<button type="submit">submit</button>
<section>
<%= yield %>
</section>
</body>
</html>
The easiest way is as follows:
Package the example.rb code into a class or module like so:
class FileReader
def self.read_grammar_defs(filename)
# ...
end
end
require the file from your sinatra server
Inside the post action, read the params and call the method:
post '/p' do
#result = FileReader.read_grammar_defs(params[:grammar_file])
erb :home
end
With this code, after submitting the form, it would populate the #result variable and render the :home template. Instance variables are accessible from ERB and so you could access it from therer if you wanted to display the result.
This is one potential issue with this, though - when the page is rendered the url will still say "your_host.com/p" and if the user reloads the page, they will get a 404 / "route not found" error because there is no get "/p" defined.
As a workaround, you can redirect '/' and use session as described in this StackOverflow answer or Sinatra' official FAQ to pass the result value.
I want to generate a PDF with our department logo in it. When I try to use the WickedPdf class in my controller (using the method described at https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf):
def some_action
image_tag_string = image_tag('logo.jpg')
pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(image_tag_string)
save_path = Rails.root.join('testpdfs','logotest.pdf')
File.open(save_path, 'wb') do |file|
file << pdf
end
end
...the application saves the PDF to the target directory, but it has a blue-and-white '?' mark where the image should be.
If I do this instead:
image_tag_string = wicked_pdf_image_tag('logo.jpg')
pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(image_tag_string)
I get the following error:
NoMethodError:
undefined method `wicked_pdf_image_tag' for #<...
It would appear that my Rails app is also missing / not linking to a helper file belonging to the wicked-pdf gem.
Answers to similar questions on StackOverflow recommend writing a custom "image-tag" helper to locate the image or installing wkhtmltopdf. For me, image-tag shows the logo just fine when placed in a View (whatever.html.erb). "logo.jpg" is already located in both the asset pipeline and #{RailsRoot}/public/images. Finally, I am using wkhtmltopdf 0.9.9, wicked-pdf 0.11.0, and rails 4 on Ubuntu 14.04.
In a nutshell - what am I doing wrong that causes WickedPDF to fail to render the image?
First thing create a pdf template to render and use your wicked_pdf tags in that template..
for example-
app/views/layout/application.pdf.erb-
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8' />
</head>
<body onload='number_pages'>
<div id="content">
<%= yield %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
app/views/pdf/pdf_view.pdf.erb-
<div>
<%= wicked_pdf_image_tag 'logo.jpg' %>
</div>
use this template instead
def save
pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(
render_to_string(
template: 'example/pdf_view.pdf.erb',
layout: 'layouts/application.pdf.erb'))
send_data(pdf,
filename: 'file_name.pdf',
type: 'application/pdf',
disposition: 'attachment')
end
This might help you..
Use the wicked_pdf_image_tag helper in your view and reference the image with asset_url if your image is in public/images or use asset_pack_url if the image is in public/packs/media/images
<%= wicked_pdf_image_tag asset_url('/images/footer_logo.png') %>
or
<%= wicked_pdf_image_tag asset_pack_url('media/images/footer_logo.png') %>
I converted image url that 'http' from 'https'. Than worked.
Heroku-18
Rails 4.2
wicked_pdf (1.1.0)
wkhtmltopdf-binary (0.12.4)
In my case, I am using carrierwave, the solution was taken from this post
<img src="<%= root_url + "/" +file.service_url %>">
This worked on rails 5.
How do I get the text inside the
<head> ... </head>
tags from a web page using ruby during a Net::HTTP::Session?
Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_addr, proxy_port).start(url) { |http|
id.upto(Max_ID) do |i|
t = http.head(request<<i.to_s).HEAD_TAGS# I want to get text inside <head></head>
match_ch_names_for_id(t,i) unless !t
end
}
I know I can get the source with
Net::Http.get(url, request)
but I need to do this many times and the script will be extremely slow if I keep reobtaining the connection.
If I use the body or read_body methods for a Net::Http::Response object it won't return what's inside the head tags.
I'm working with a site using client-side templates through knockout.js.
The backend api, and login, is written in rails.
What I want to do is have each client-side html template in a separate file, and then have those templates lifted into the page using the templates. Similar to how javascript files are lifted in.
So I have a directory in my app/assets called templates
Each template in the directory should be added to the page in a script tag with the type="text/html"
I've gotten so far as to product the actual templates content now I just want to put it in the html.erb file in the head property.
However it always lands in the Body as normal text, not as HTML.
I've defined the following method in my controller:
def html_templates
output = ''
templates = Dir.glob 'app/assets/templates/*'
templates.each { |template|
file = File.open(template, "rb")
output += '<script type="text/html" id="'+(File.basename template, '.html')+'">'
output += file.read
output += '</script>'
}
return output
end
I try to add it to the .erb layout file like so:
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<%= html_templates %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
Yet the output is always put in the body, with all my html escaped.
Also, if anyone has better solutions to have to solve this. Please, recommend.
Thanks :) so basically you should use raw method whenever you don't want output to be escaped
I have a .html.erb file, with some javascript in it. I would like to do something like this:
var stuff = '<div><%= #ruby_var.title %></div>'
What is the best way to do this? I may be totally off... Thanks.
To safely do this you need to use to_json:
<%= javascript_tag do %>
var stuff = <%= #ruby_var.title.to_json %>;
<% end %>
This will ensure your code does not break if #ruby_var.title has a quote in it.
To include the divs I would do:
<%= javascript_tag do %>
var stuff = <%= "<div>#{#ruby_var.title}</div>".to_json %>;
<% end %>
Note that there are no quotes around <%= %>, to_json takes care of that for you.
<script>
var stuff = '<div><%=escape_javascript #ruby_var.title %></div>'
</script>
in your .html.erb file will work fine.
Ruby can't be run on the client, at least not with specialized browser plugins. Instead, look at using AJAX and RJS to query your Ruby web application from Javascript and insert any text it returns into your page.
Without more information, I don't think you're going to get any better answers. I might be totally off too, because I'm only guessing at what you really want to do.
You can use the javascript_tag function to include Javascript in a .html.erb file.
Example:
javascript_tag "alert('This is a test')"
in your foo.html.erb will return
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
alert('This is a test')
//]]>
</script>
to the browser.