Archive for July 2019

This is an overview of all the articles I wrote in July 2019. Most of it is relevant to this day.

Digging Deeper into Ruby Templating: The Parser

This article was published on Ruby Magic.

Today, we continue our journey into Ruby Templating. With the lexer in place, let’s move on to the next step: The parser.

Last time, we looked at string interpolation and subsequently, dived into creating our own templating language. We started by implementing a lexer that reads a template and converts it into a stream of tokens. Today, we’ll implement the accompanying parser. We will also dip...

Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby

This article was published on Ruby Magic.

Put on your scuba diving suite and pack your stencils, we’re diving into Templates today!

Most software that renders web pages or generates emails uses templating to embed variable data into text documents. The main structure of the document is often set up in a static template with placeholders for the data. The variable data, like user names or web page contents, replace the placeholders while...