Haml's being use in all kinds of frameworks other than Rails. This
could easily just be a helper in your Rails project.
-1 from me.
On Oct 23, 3:32 pm, Lex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The primary advantage isn't syntactic. How I see it is that a designer
> who knows HAML, but not Ruby could create components out of partials
> without having to write any Ruby code. It also adds functionality when
> using HAML apart from Rails w/o having to roll your own helpers
> framework. This would help to further decouple HAML from Rails and
> encourage its use in other environments. There is also a clear
> syntactic advantage over:
>
> = render :partial => 'foo'
>
> which would become
>
> $foo
>
> On Oct 23, 12:14 pm, "Chris Eppstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > -1 There's no syntactic advantage here over helpers.
> > = calendar(:month => 'January')
>
> > = datagrid(:data => @my_hash, :sort_by => 'date', :order => 'asc')
>
> > -chris
>
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Lex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > First off, I just wanted to say Kudos to Hampton Catlin (and everyone
> > > else involved) for creating HAML, it's the first templating language
> > > that I've actually liked. Super easy to learn too, I'm in looove!
>
> > > BUT...
>
> > > I think it could be made better...How about this:
>
> > > $component{ :localvar => @vartobind }
>
> > > Some J**a-based templating systems use this idea (groovy/gsp, and jsf/
> > > facelets/jsp) to compose templates out of partials, though they use
> > > the xml namespacing method (i.e. <taglib:tag attr="value" />)
>
> > > I think this is a great way to make templates more DRY, it allows
> > > partials to be extracted, reused, and distributed as components, and
> > > it discourages use of inline code in a template. A backing class could
> > > be attached to a partial to aid in complex logic.
>
> > > Some ideas:
>
> > > $calendar{ :month => 'January' }
>
> > > $datagrid{ :data => @my_hash, :sort_by => 'date', :order => 'asc' }
>
> > > What do you all think?
>
>
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