porth-plist (Plain Old Ruby Template Handler - Plist output)

Adds Property list (.plist) support to 'porth' (Plain Old Ruby Template Handler) gem. This allows data stored in plain ruby objects (arrays and hashes) to be easily represented in a view with a property list output.

Requirements

Installation

Add this to your project's Gemfile and run $ bundle install

gem 'porth-plist'

Usage

Add the ".plist" mime time to your rails app's config/initializers/mime_types.rb:

Mime::Type.register "text/xml", :plist

Add ":plist" to your controller's responds_to calls, for example:

class PeopleController < ApplicationController

  respond_to :json, :xml, :plist, :html

  # GET /people
  # GET /people.json
  def index
    @people = Person.all

    respond_with @people
  end

  # GET /people/1
  # GET /people/1.json
  def show
    @person = Person.find(params[:id])

    respond_with @person
  end

etc...

Note: This gem adds a #to_plist method to ActiveRecord::Base which makes it consistent with #to_json and #to_xml as used by the standard Porth handlers.

Dependencies

Runtime dependencies:

porth
plist
action_pack (>= 3.1) (to be consistent with porth)
active_record (>= 3.1) (to be consistent with above)

Development dependencies:

rpsec
rake

Compatibility

MRI 1.8.7
MRI 1.9.2+
rails >= 3.1 (to be consistent with Porth)

Contributing

Fork
Install dependancies by running $ bundle install
Write tests and code
Make sure the tests pass by running $ rake test
Push and send a pull request on GitHub

Credits

Special thanks to Tate Johnson (et al) for making Porth!