Examples using selmer?

[andyparsons]

Wondering if there are any examples using optimus asset loaders in a luminus/selmer project? We are keen to try optimus but struggling to wire everything up!

[magnars]

I don't have any experience with luminus or selmer, but I would be happy to answer any questions you have. What have you tried? Do these frameworks expose the Ring middleware stack somewhere?

[andyparsons]

Luminus makes us of ring and compojure, so yes. Selmer is a Django-like templating library into which I'd like to inject Optimus asset URLs. Let me poke around further and come back with a very specific issue. Thanks!

[andyparsons]

For example, this view function should render the bundle output into the Selmer template (the bracketed content is simply passed into the template). But, this actually outputs the string "clojure.lang.LazySeq@1" so we must be missing a step somewhere.

(defn style-guide [request]
  (layout/render
    "admin/styleguide.html" 
    {:page-style (optimus.hiccup/link-to-css-bundles request ["app.css"])}))

[magnars]

Ah yes, that is a bit convoluted if you're not using hiccup. In fact, I've been meaning to change it to be less hiccup-specific. I'll fix that on the train home, and push a new version.

If you want to have it working straight away, include hiccup in your project [hiccup "1.0.4"] then require [hiccup.core :refer [html]] and do:

(defn style-guide [request]
  (layout/render
    "admin/styleguide.html" 
    {:page-style (html (optimus.hiccup/link-to-css-bundles request ["app.css"]))}))

[andyparsons]

Ah, of course Dumb mistake not to get the HTML out of hiccup. Thanks. FWIW, more friendliness to Selmer, which is the default templating engine in Luminus would be great for adoption. I think Optimus' approach and flexibility is superior by far to the other options out there.

[magnars]

Glad to hear that. :) I wouldn't call it a dumb mistake as much as a dumb API. I'll get a new version out soon.

[magnars]

I've released [optimus "0.17.0"], which removes the optimus.hiccup namespace in favor of optimus.html.

The old optimus.hiccup/link-to-css-bundles created hiccup data structures, which is a mistake. It's specific to one rendering method, and Hiccup works just as well (or better) with strings.

You can replace optimus.hiccup with optimus.html, remove hiccup, and all should be well. :)

[andyparsons]

@magnars thanks for the super-fast update! Trying it now and will report back if any questions pop up.

[magnars]

This one had been brewing for a while, so thanks for giving me the proper incentive to do something about it. :)

[andyparsons]

Great. Note I removed my last note here, the issue was unrelated to your recent change.