A Rake Task that makes it stupid-easy to render ERB templates to disk

ERBResolver

require 'erb'

# DynamicAccessors source file found here: http://gist.github.com/215257
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/dynamic_accessors'

# Rake task that makes it stupid-easy to render ERB templates
# to disk. Just add parameters to the yielded object, and
# they will be available to your Template.
#
#   erb_resolver 'config/SomeFile.xml' do |t|
#     t.param1 = 'value'
#     t.other_param = 'other value'
#     t.another_param = ['a', 'b', 'c']
#     t.template = 'config/SomeFile.xml.erb' # Optional - will automatically look here...
#   end
#
module Sprout
  
  class ERBResolver < Rake::FileTask
    include DynamicAccessors
    
    # File to create from the rendered
    # ERB template. This value will
    # default to the Task name in order
    # to be consistent with other FileTasks
    attr_accessor :output
    
    # Path to the input ERB template. This
    # value will default to the value of
    # "#{ERBResolver.output}.erb"
    attr_accessor :template
    
    def initialize(name, app) # :nodoc:
      super
    end

    def define
    end

    def prepare
      prepare_prerequisites
    end

    def execute(*args)
      super
      content = nil
      File.open(template, 'r') { |f| content = f.read }
      result = ERB.new(content, nil, '>').result(binding)
      File.open(output, 'w') { |f| f.write(result) }
      puts ">> Created ERB output at: #{output} from: #{template}"
    end

    def self.define_task(args, &block)
      t = super
      if(t.is_a?(ERBResolver))
        yield t if block_given?
        t.define
        t.prepare
      end
      return t
    end
    
    def template
      @template ||= "#{output}.erb"
    end
  
    def output
      @output ||= self.name
    end
    
    protected
    
    def prepare_prerequisites
      prerequisites << file(template)
      CLEAN.add(output)
    end
    
  end
end

def erb_resolver(args, &block)
  Sprout::ERBResolver.define_task(args, &block)
end

This is a lovely Rake task. Would you be willing to clarify copyright and license for this? I would like to adapt it as part of a code base that will be under the MIT license.

Thanks for the kind words.

Done.