Sweet. Thanks!

On Mar 22, 4:48 am, "Nex3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Haml comes bundled with an executable, located in "bin/haml" (or
> automatically installed with the gem) that does just that. Whenever I
> need to do something in pure HTML/CSS, I always get the Haml gem or,
> if RubyGems isn't available, download a tarball (http://rubyforge.org/
> frs/download.php/18227/haml-1.5.0.tar.gz), make it in Haml and Sass,
> and run the templates through the executable. The syntax is just "haml
> input.haml output.html" and "sass input.sass output.css".
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Mar 22, 2:42 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ok, before I go ahead and write it. Has someone written something that
> > will take haml and output an html file? I realize this kinda seems
> > redundant, but on certain projects I can't use ruby (like my day job),
> > but it looks much more fun that just typing html or css.
>
> > On Mar 22, 3:36 am, "Nex3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Well, shucks.
>
> > > 1. We don't compile to RHTML, we compile straight to HTML. Well, not
> > > straight, there are some steps in between, but those are
> > > implementation details. Performance-wise, because Haml needs to think
> > > about the entire document, rather than just certain sections, it is
> > > slower than ERb (which is the system RHTML uses). On my computer, it
> > > currently benchmarks at about 2.7 times as slow, although the test
> > > pages aren't entirely equivalent (there are a lot of shortcuts taken
> > > in the Haml page that simply can't be done in RHTML). We do keep an
> > > eye out for performance, though, and it has been increasing pretty
> > > steadily.
>
> > > 2. Yes, in fact, there is. Haml works just as well as a Ruby module as
> > > it does as a plugin. You can grab the gem by running "gem install
> > > haml", and then use the Haml::Engine class to render stuff (or
> > > Sass::Engine for Sass). Check out the 
> > > rdoc,http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc,
> > > for a full reference, but the gist is:
>
> > >   Haml::Engine.new("%h1 Scripted Haml!").render #=> <h1>Scripted Haml!
> > > </h1>
>
> > > Hope that was helpful :).
>
> > > - Nathan
>
> > > On Mar 22, 1:22 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > First off let me say Haml seems very awesome (jsut learned about it)
> > > > and I think the developers are awesome too (shameless compliment).
> > > > It's quite coincidental that I was just thinking about how repetitive
> > > > html and css were and was about to start work on some thing when I
> > > > found this. It's like they read my mind.....creepy. Anyways I had two
> > > > quick questions.
>
> > > > 1. How much of a performance hit does it make having to compile to
> > > > rhtml and then render?
> > > > 2. Is there a way you can script it and then precompile it? i.e. write
> > > > in on your machine then compile to html/rhtml/css  and then upload?
> > > > Cause I'd really like to use this on my non ruby based web dev stuff.
>
> > > > Thanks in advance and keep up the good work, can't wait to see what's
> > > > next.


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