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Haml is the best template engine on Rails (Discussion)

wmoxam said – Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:55:03 -0000 ( Edit Link )

By removing the non-data characters and using whitespace to indicate nesting, Haml increases the information density of templates. It also eliminates the problem of missing end tags as they are generated for you.

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Carsten said – Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:19:35 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

I totally agree, and in the real world it’s speed is just fine, every single HTML template in LearnHub is written in Haml and it’s pretty peppy! We also use Sass for all of our CSS it brings the Haml ideology to CSS and greatly increases productivity.
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hcatlin said – Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:54:02 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Of course I agree too.
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gabriel said – Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:36:37 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Haml rawks! My only gripe with it is that it encapsulates element attributes with single quotes by default instead of double quotes. Single quotes may look nicer when quoting ruby strings and what-not, but in markup, doubles are definitely superior. Just view source this page and you’ll see what I mean; it’s a mish-mash of single– and double-quoted attributes, and it doesn’t look at all pretty.

Can we expect to see this issue addressed in the next release, Hampton? :)
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1. Carsten said – Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:06:37 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
  
  Gabe, the majority of people will be reading the rendered page, not the markup.
  
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RSL said – Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:18:53 -0000 ( Flag Edit Mark / Unmark Best Link )

Gabe, throw this in an initializer and yr all good:

Haml::Template.options = {:attr_wrapper => "\""}
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