On Rails — Marco Roth: Teaching Rails to Read Its Own Template

Herb, an HTML-and-ERB parser created by independent consultant Marco Roth, is set to become part of Rails 8.2, Roth said on the On Rails podcast. Herb parses HTML and ERB together so broken views are caught before they reach production, and Roth's ReActionView makes Rails views reactive without rewriting them. Roth, also the creator of RubyEvents.org, argued that such tooling matters more as AI agents write templates.

Marco Roth https://marcoroth.dev , independent consultant and the creator of Herb https://herb-tools.dev and <a href="https://reactionview.dev"” ReActionView</a , joins Robby to talk about teaching Rails to understand its own templates. Marco explains how Herb parses HTML and ERB together, why that lets it catch broken views long before they reach production, and how it is set to become part of Rails 8.2. They also get into how ReActionView makes Rails views reactive without rewriting them, the story behind RubyEvents.org https://rubyevents.org , and why tooling like Herb matters even more when AI agents are writing your templates. Listen to this episode https://podcast.rubyonrails.org/2462975/episodes/20121188-marco-roth-teaching-rails-to-read-its-own-template 90m or subscribe to On Rails https://podcast.rubyonrails.org in your podcast player.