Haml JavaScript (JST) Templates for Rails

Lets you use https://github.com/uglyog/clientside-haml-js templates in the Rails asset pipeline.

No need to download haml.js, this gem includes the haml.js file for you.

• Requires ExecJS
• Requires CoffeeScript

Why another Haml in JavaScript gem?

Uglyog's library lets you use coffeescript, which allows the embedded JavaScript in your Haml templates to be much more beautiful and Ruby-like. While I'm not the biggest fan of coffeescript for actual javascript coding, it's the perfect solution for haml templates.

The other gems use creationix's library.

The gem hooks in to the asset pipeline to give you precompiled haml templates which are actually blazing fast for the user and should be perfectly compatible with production environments.

Installation

Add this line to your Gemfile

gem 'rails-hamljs', :git => 'git://github.com/rocksolidwebdesign/rails-hamljs'

Usage

Simply add JST templates with an extension of .haml to your javascript templates directory

app/assets/javascripts/templates/foo.jst.haml

And of course, be sure to

//= require_tree ./templates

in the correct order so that the global JST variable is available.

Then, as with other JST templates such as ECO and EJS, you may access your templates from the JST object:

var template = JST["templates/foo"];

var htmlOutput = template({
  someVar: "someValue",
  someOtherVar: "someOtherVal"
});

TODO

Configuration:

Toggle whose library to use (creationix or uglyog) Toggle coffeescript (if using uglyog's library)