Rake task that will combine a number of HTML (or Handlebars) files into an object literal in a single JS file.

combine_resources.rake

task :resources => [] do
  resources = {}
  basepath = 'src/resources/'
  files = FileList.new
    .include("%s**/*.html" % basepath)
    .include("%s**/*.handlebars" % basepath)
    .sub(basepath, '')
  
  files.each do |src|
    File.open(basepath + src, 'r') do |resfile|
      resid = src.gsub(/.(html|handlebars)/i, '')
      
      # update the resource in the resources list
      resources[resid] = resfile.read().gsub(/[\n\r\t]/, '').gsub(/\'/, '"')
    end
  end
  
  File.open("src/resources.js", "w") do |resjs|
    counter = 0
    resjs.write("var htmlResources = {\n")
    
    resources.each do |k, v|
      if (counter > 0)
        resjs.write(",\n")
      end
      
      resjs.write("  '%s': '%s'" % [k, v])
      counter += 1
    end
    
    resjs.write("\n};\n")
  end
end