If you're interested in playing with selector-based templating in Rails, there's a very interesting library called Effigy which does this. https://github.com/j

If you're interested in playing with selector-based templating in Rails, there's a very interesting library called Effigy which does this. https://github.com/jferris/effigy https://github.com/jferris/effigy It seems like a great way to keep design from getting too tightly coupled with a changing app. It would be great if there was some way to "precompile" the selectors and use this as a performant replacement for messy templates.