How do I loop through an array passed directly to dust.js?

Question

Using the dust.js javascript templating engine, I want to pass an array directly:

var templateContents; //loaded by require.js
var compiled = dust.compile(templateContents, "viewElements");
dust.loadSource(compiled);
dust.render("viewElements", ["bob", "joe", "sue"], function(err, out){
    $('#view').html(out);
});

How do I create a template file to handle an array directly? I've tried a number of things including:

{.}<br>

and

{#.}
 {.}
{/.}

But can't seem to reference the array or the elements in it correctly. The first example prints: [object Object]

I could name each array that I pass in, but what I'm trying to avoid having to do that as the arrays are actually coming from backbone collections and it seems like extra work to do so.

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly what was going wrong with one of the things I tried in the original question, but thanks Trevor for pointing this out.

dust.render("viewElements", ["bob", "joe", "sue"], function(err, out){
    $('#view').html(out);
});

This will work with this:

{#.}{.}<br>{/.}

If you've got an array of objects:

dust.render("viewElements", [{name:"bob"}, {name:"joe"}, {name:"sue"}],
    function(err, out){
        $('#view').html(out);
    });

You can render them by referencing the name property on the . element:

{#.}{.name}<br>{/.}

Or directly:

{#.}{name}<br>{/.}