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26 Apr

haml is awesome!


Haml is a new templating engine primarily for ruby on rails.
It's an alternative to rhtml files one generally uses with rails views.
Let's see an example:
Here is the rhtml version:

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  <div id='content'>
    <div class='left column'>
      <h2>Welcome to pullmonkey.com</h2>
      <p>
        <%= print_info %>
      </p>
    </div>
    <div class="right column">
      <%= render :partial => "sidebar" %>
    </div>
  </div>

Here we have it in haml:

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  #content
    .left.column
      %h2 Welcome to pullmonkey.com
      %p= print_info
    .right.column= render :partial => "sidebar"

So, 11 lines written in 5 and much clearer.
I am going to start using haml for everything, it is amazing!


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