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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 17, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873 "2007-02-17T01:42:12Z")\
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**Author:**  [@bryan82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan82)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873/1 "2007-02-17T01:42:12Z")
Hi.
Is there a way, or has anyone written anything that would let me extract
the HTML and Javascript code that Rails generates? I’m going to be
applying for a front-end design position, and would like to be able to
show some samples from my Rails work without having to run the apps. I
can only get so much with View Source.
I also love developing using helpers, RJS and HAML. It would be awesome
to be able to use these tools, and output straight XHTML and Javascript
for a non-Rails environment.
Any thoughts?
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**Author:**  [@bryan82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan82)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873/2 "2007-02-17T02:07:44Z")
Bryan M. wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there a way, or has anyone written anything that would let me extract
> the HTML and Javascript code that Rails generates? I’m going to be
> applying for a front-end design position, and would like to be able to
> show some samples from my Rails work without having to run the apps. I
> can only get so much with View Source.
>
> I also love developing using helpers, RJS and HAML. It would be awesome
> to be able to use these tools, and output straight XHTML and Javascript
> for a non-Rails environment.
>
> Any thoughts?
Turn on page caching for all your actions in all your controllers, and
then go to all the pages in your browser.
All your html would dumped to the public directory. However things like
redirects after form submit would not work.
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**Author:**  [@bryan82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan82)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873/3 "2007-02-17T04:09:40Z")
WebDeveloper Toolbar for firefox has an option called view generated
source. You can also view the generated JS with that tool. Another
little neat tool is View Source Chart for Firefox which lets you see
the generated DOM tree.
> I also love developing using helpers, RJS and HAML. It would be awesome
> to be able to use these tools, and output straight XHTML and Javascript
> for a non-Rails environment.
I can only think of XPath/XSLTs for this.
On Feb 16, 7:42 pm, Bryan M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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**Author:**  [@bryan82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan82)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873/4 "2007-02-17T16:02:45Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> WebDeveloper Toolbar for firefox has an option called view generated
> source. You can also view the generated JS with that tool. Another
> little neat tool is View Source Chart for Firefox which lets you see
> the generated DOM tree.
>
> > I also love developing using helpers, RJS and HAML. It would be awesome
> > to be able to use these tools, and output straight XHTML and Javascript
> > for a non-Rails environment.
>
> I can only think of XPath/XSLTs for this.
>
> On Feb 16, 7:42 pm, Bryan M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
Thank you both!
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**Author:**  [@bryan82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bryan82)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extracting-html-javascript-from-rails/85873/5 "2007-03-01T18:28:03Z")
Haml can actually be generated in a non-Rails environment.
Just install the gem
gem install haml
and then include it
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘haml’
haml\_object = Haml::Engine.new(“%haml”)
haml\_object.render #returns the XHTML
Hope this helps!
-hampton.
On Feb 17, 10:02 am, Bryan M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)