Format of EJS and JST template files in rails-backbone gem

Question

I am using the rails-backbone gem ( https://github.com/codebrew/backbone-rails). For rendering HTML, it uses some kind of javascript templates, whose name I cannot tell even aft

Answer 1

A very good reference to what all this is about is here:-

http://www.bigjason.com/blog/precompiled-javascript-templates-rails-3-1

Answer 2

Rails processes EJS templates with ejs gem which is a port of underscore.js's _.template function to Ruby. Output of that is a javascript function which in turn will produce the html when run in the browser.

• .ejs – embedded javascript
• .jst – javascript template

Here's recent article which includes also description of backbone-rails:

• Where does my javascript code go? Backbone, JST and the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline