ability to specify template name explicitly

[toranb]

ability to specify template name explicitly

[toranb]

When I first started writing this npm module I had the same idea in mind and felt I was fighting the convention. But after talking with Yehuda Katz about how the core team expected build tool developers to deal with nested templates, it was clear that if your routes are nested => the templates themselves will also be nested on the file system. And after a little time with the convention it was clear this constraint was something I should embrace.

In addition to the core view on how templates should be precompiled I also feel this convention keeps the module dead simple and easy to use (assuming you can get past wanting more control over template names)

I hope you can understand my opinion on this subject. At this time I'm planning to keep the module as is (with no option to set the name explicitly)

[apmorton]

perhaps I should have been a little clearer,

My wish is not to override the names of the templates to conflict with the ember conventions, but rather to override your own.

in my own projects I use /static/app/hbs/template.hbs

even a command line switch to set the base directory and extension would be sufficient I believe.

However, if you do not wish to make these changes I can do them myself and simply not merge them back.

[toranb]

Interesting - what does that .hbs file extension do for you specifically? I thought that was more for rails specific/ pipeline stuff?

[toranb]

I think offering both .handlebars and .hbs as valid extensions would be fine -I'll add this over the weekend :)

Look for a 1.0.3 release on Saturday

[apmorton]

COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
    ('text/x-handlebars', 'django-ember-precompile --ext .hbs --root hbs {infile}'),
)

given the filename /static/app/hbs/template.hbs it should do the following with the flags

--root hbs - split at path.sep + 'hbs' + path.sep and keep only the second half
--ext .hbs - remove the extension .hbs

sane defaults of --root templates and --ext .handlebars when no options are specified would prevent any sort of breakage in existing deployments

[toranb]

The more I read into this it seems like you want the extensibility that I don't want to add -fair to say?

If that is the case -any reason you can't just stick to the name "templates" and .handlebars ? or .hbs ?

[toranb]

One great question worth asking is -do you want to change this just because you don't like the directory name "templates" or are you using another library that conflicts with this and that other library requires "hbs" / etc ?

If enough people are using another conflicting library (for something server side lets say) I might consider it, but if this configuration is just for configuration sake I'd rather not include it