diff --git a/Hack/Contrib/Press.hs b/Hack/Contrib/Press.hs
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+module Hack.Contrib.Press (renderToResponse, envToJS, defaultContext) where
+
+import Data.ByteString.Class
+import Data.Data
+import Hack
+import Text.JSON
+import Text.JSON.Generic (toJSON)
+import Text.Press.Run
+import qualified Hack
+
+-- converts a context and template name or body into a response
+
+renderToResponse :: Hack.Env -> String -> [JSValue] -> IO Response
+renderToResponse env filename context = runJSValuesWithPath sl filename >>= resultToResponse
+    where sl = context ++ (defaultContext env)
+
+envToJS :: Hack.Env -> JSValue
+envToJS env = env'
+    where
+        env' = JSObject $ toJSObject [
+            ("requestMethod", toJSON . show $ requestMethod env),
+            ("scriptName", toJSON $ scriptName env),
+            ("queryString", toJSON $ queryString env),
+            ("serverName", toJSON $ serverName env),
+            ("serverPort", toJSON $ serverPort env),
+            ("http", toJSON $ http env),
+            ("hackVersion", toJSON $ hackVersion env),
+            ("hackHeaders", toJSON $ hackHeaders env), 
+            ("hackUrlScheme", toJSON . show $ hackUrlScheme env)
+            ]
+
+defaultContext :: Hack.Env -> [JSValue]
+defaultContext env = [JSObject $ toJSObject [("env", envToJS env)]]
+
+resultToResponse result = do
+    case result of 
+        Left err -> error $ show err
+        Right succ -> do
+            return $ Hack.Response {
+                status = 200,
+                headers = [("Content-Type", "text/html")],
+                body = toLazyByteString $ foldl (++) "" succ
+            }
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+GPL v3 or Later.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+#!/usr/bin/env runhaskell
+import Distribution.Simple
+
+main = defaultMain 
diff --git a/hack-contrib-press.cabal b/hack-contrib-press.cabal
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+Name:                hack-contrib-press
+Version:             0.1.0
+Synopsis:            Hack helper that renders Press templates
+Description:         Hack helper that renders Press templates
+Category:            Text, Web
+License:             GPL
+License-File:        LICENSE
+Author:              Brandon Bickford <bickfordb@gmail.com>
+Maintainer:          bickfordb@gmail.com
+Homepage:            http://github.com/bickfordb/hack-contrib-press
+Build-Type:          Simple
+Cabal-Version:       >= 1.2
+
+Library
+  Build-Depends:     base < 4, bytestring, bytestring-class, containers, mtl, hack >= 2009.7.15, parsec >= 3.0.0, press, json
+  Exposed-Modules:   Hack.Contrib.Press