Any intention to add an 'include' tag to enable nested templates?

[stringfellow]

I've got a couple of cases where I have a template that I reuse within other templates and at the moment its a copy-paste job. Am I missing something? Is this a reasonable feature request?

[sircambridge]

will this work for you ?

<%- eco.render(fs.readFileSync('someTemplate.eco'), @ ) %>

[stringfellow]

Hmm, possibly. I'm using eco in spinejs and I don't think I have implicit access to the eco module within the template... But am probably missing something.

[sircambridge]

You might be able to global.eco = require('eco') ?

Or pass the Eco reference into the context object, @eco = require('eco')

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On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Steve Pike wrote:

Hmm, possibly. I'm using eco in spinejs and I don't think I have implicit access to the eco module within the template... But am probably missing something.

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[trans]

I am compiling eco template using eco command-line and wondering the same thing -- how to nest templates?

[lagartoflojo]

In my case, I'm sending the templates directly to the clients, and they all get stored in the "JST" variable (this is done automatically by Rails).

To nest a template then, I use:

<%- JST['template_name'](myVar: 1) %>

[timaschew]

@sircambridge I try this: pass to the outer template the eco, fs, and templateDir object, in the template I do this:

<%- @eco.render( @fs.readFileSync(@templateDir + '/Makefile_partial.eco'), @) %>

But I get an error, whatever the partial contains some string, nochting (empty) or a variable print:

Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/scanner.js:31
      this.source = source.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n");
               ^
TypeError: Object  has no method 'replace'
  at new Scanner (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/scanner.js:31:28)
  at new Preprocessor (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/preprocessor.js:17:22)
  at module.exports.Preprocessor.preprocess (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/preprocessor.js:12:22)
  at exports.precompile.precompile (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/compiler.js:12:35)
  at exports.compile (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/compiler.js:19:38)
  at module.exports.eco (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/index.js:11:86)
  at Function.eco.render (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/index.js:26:13)
  at Object.eval (<anonymous>:74:27)
  at Object.eval (<anonymous>:106:8)
  at eval (<anonymous>:108:6)
  at Function.eco.render (/Users/timaschew/project/node_modules/eco/lib/index.js:26:25)
  at /Users/timaschew/project/tools/create_makefile.coffee:90:17, <js>:107:43
  at fs.js:266:14
  at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)