How do I get Haml to work with Rails?
I am trying to get Haml to work with my Ruby on Rails project. I am new to Ruby on Rails and I really like it. However, when I attempt to add an aplication.html.haml
or index.html.haml
for a view, I just receive errors.
I am using NetBeans as my IDE.
Haml with Rails 3
For Rails 3 all you need to do is add gem "haml", '3.0.25'
to your Gemfile
. No need to install plugin or run haml --rails .
.
Just:
$ cd awesome-rails-3-app.git $ echo 'gem "haml"' >> Gemfile
And you're done.
The answers above are spot-on. You just need to put gem 'haml'
in your Gemfile
.
One other tip that was not mentioned: to have rails generators use haml
instead of erb
, add the following to config/application.rb
:
config.generators do |g|
g.template_engine :haml
# you can also specify a different test framework or ORM here
# g.test_framework :rspec
# g.orm :mongoid
end
First, install haml as a gem in bundler by adding this to your Gemfile
:
gem "haml"
Run bundle install
, then make sure your views are named with a *.html.haml extension. For example:
`-- app
`-- views
|-- layouts
| `-- application.html.haml
`-- users
|-- edit.html.haml
|-- index.html.haml
|-- new.html.haml
`-- show.html.haml
Add haml to your Gemfile:
gem "haml"
If you want to use the scaffold-functions too, add haml-rails within your development-group:
gem 'haml-rails', :group => :development
Don't forget to run:
$ bundle install