Add support for jQuery templates

backbone-rails.gemspec

@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.summary = "Use backbone.js with rails 3.1"
   s.description = "quickly setup backbone.js for use with rails 3.1"
-  s.files = Dir["lib/**/*"] + Dir["vendor/**/*"] + ["MIT-LICENSE", "Rakefile", "README.rdoc"]
+  s.files = Dir["lib/**/*"] + Dir["vendor/**/*"] + ["MIT-LICENSE", "Rakefile", "README.md"]
   s.version = "0.0.1"
 
   s.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.0.0"
-  s.add_development_dependency "rails",   "~> 3.1"
+  s.add_development_dependency "railties",   "~> 3.1"
 
   s.require_paths = ['lib']
 end

lib/backbone-rails.rb

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
 
       config.after_initialize do |app|
         app.assets.engines.register '.jst', Tilt::UnderscoreTemplate
+        app.assets.engines.register '.jqt', Tilt::JqueryTemplate
       end
     end
 

lib/backbone-rails/jquery.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+class Jquery
+  extend ActionView::Helpers::JavaScriptHelper
+
+  JST_START = "(function(){"
+  JST_END = "}).call(this);"
+
+  def self.render(name, data)
+    template = "jQuery.template(\"#{name}\", \"#{escape_javascript data}\");"
+    [JST_START, template, JST_END].join("\n")
+  end
+
+end

lib/backbone-rails/tilt/jquery_template.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+require 'tilt/template'
+
+module Tilt
+  class JqueryTemplate < Template
+    self.default_mime_type = 'text/x-jquery-tmpl'
+
+    def initialize_engine
+      require_template_library 'backbone-rails/jquery'
+    end
+
+    def prepare; end
+
+    def evaluate(scope, locals, &block) 
+      Jquery.render(name, data)
+    end
+
+  end
+end