15 Aug 2010
Haml-rails gem for Haml with Rails 3
I’m setting up a new Rails 3 app, and I discovered that the rspec-rails plugin is a very well-behaved Rails 3 gem plugin. All you have to do is add it to your Gemfile, and then (via a Railtie) it adds RSpec rake tasks, adds some RSpec generators, and replaces Test/Unit as the testing framework for anything newly generated.
Haml, on the other hand, does not integrate with the new features that Rails 3 provides. You need to run haml --rails . to generate an initializer yourself, and it doesn’t come with any generators. The current haml generators had been living in my rails3-generators gem, but that repo was just supposed to be a stopgap measure while plugin authors got around to integrating with Rails3 themselves.
Since Haml doesn’t seem to have gotten around to integrating with Rails 3, I just did it myself: presenting haml-rails, the gem that not only adds Haml generators, but hooks into Rails to activate Haml and replace ERB with Haml automatically. No configuration required.
The source is on github if you want to check it out.
Installation is pretty complicated, but I’m sure you can get the hang of it:
# Gemfile
gem "haml-rails"
Enjoy!