Rails View
Two halves of the Rails view layer toolchain
Marco Roth's Herb work makes the code half of the Rails view layer toolchain real. The design half needs the same treatment.
02 Jun 2026
Marco Roth's keynote at Tropical on Rails 2026 ("Why Rails Needs a View Layer Toolchain") is the consolidation of two years of work that has changed what the Rails view layer can be. Herb, an HTML-aware ERB parser written in C with bindings for Ruby, Node, Java, Rust, and the browser. Herb tooli...