BREAKING CHANGE haml_assets now works with the haml gem. Please update your gemfile.

Use haml to write your JavaScript templates in the asset pipeline

Writing JavaScript templates for Backbone.js (or other frameworks) in your app? Would you like to use haml in the asset pipeline?

This gem adds haml support to the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline. You will also need a gem that creates a compiled JavaScript template like hogan_assets or handlebars_assets as well.

Installing

Add this to your Gemfile

gem 'haml_assets'

Using haml for your JavaScript templates

Templates directory

You should located your templates under app/assets; we suggest app/assets/templates. In your JavaScript manifest file (for example application.js), use require_tree

//= require_tree ../templates

The template file

Inside your templates directory, add your template file. The file should be named as follows

your_template_name.mustache.haml

The asset pipeline will then generate the actual JavaScript asset

  1. Convert your haml to HTML
  2. Compile the HTML to an mustache Javascript template using hogan_assets

Important! The asset pipeline is not invoking a controller to generate the templates. If you are using existing view templates, you may have to edit templates to remove some references to controller helpers.

Helpers

All the ActionView and route helpers are available in your template. If you use form_for and the related helpers, you should use the new object style, even if you are writing an edit template, for example

= form_for :contact, url: "javascript_not_working", html: {:class => :edit_contact, :method => :put} do |f|
  = f.label :name, "Name"
  = f.text_field :name, class: 'text required', autofocus: true, value: '{{name}}'

TODO

Make render available, so you can render a partial.

Contributing

Once you've made your great commits:

  1. Fork
  2. Create a topic branch - git checkout -b my_branch
  3. Push to your branch - git push origin my_branch
  4. Create a Pull Request from your branch
  5. That's it!

Authors

Les Hill : @leshill Wes Gibbs : @wgibbs