[haml] Is there a compass for haml?

[picardo]

I like and use compass for my sass files. I like most its ability to
detect change when I save the file and automatically compile it into
css.

From what I could find, haml does not have that a similar framework to
support that functionality. If there is one, I'd love to know.


Thanks.

[Chris Eppstein]

Off the top of my head:

Rails, Merb, StaticMatic, Serve, Middleman

Haml is not meant to be used stand alone, it is a template engine, not a project management tool.

chris

[Matthew Helmick]

Webby (works great with Compass), Nanoc3 (although I'm not sure how well Compass works with this yet).

[Chris Eppstein]

There was a very long thread about nanoc3 on the compass ML a few days ago. I think they managed to get it working.

chris

[Charles Roper]

On 15/10/2009 23:56, Chris Eppstein wrote:
> There was a very long thread about nanoc3 on the compass ML a few days
> ago. I think they managed to get it working.

Yeah, it works, but it's not the simplest process. I recommend
StaticMatic to start with. It's by far the simplest way to get
Haml/Sass/Compass with 'auto-rendering'.

Charles

[Matthew Helmick]

Curious to know the advantages of Staticmatic over Webby, if there are any?

[Charles Roper]

2009/10/16 Matthew Helmick <matt.h...@gmail.com>

Curious to know the advantages of Staticmatic over Webby, if there are any?

Just a case of simplicity and convention over configuration really. It is limited to Haml + Sass and therefore is very intuitive to get going with if you're used to those systems. By limiting itself to Haml + Sass, there isn't the overhead of a configuration meta-data block, but, by employing layouts, partials and a sprinkling of default helpers, you get a fairly potent little system.

It seems like the perfect fit for Picardo's original request.

Thinking about it, one could actually create a sort of Compass-like framework for Haml using it. It could include, or call on, a library of pre-built Haml pages, layouts and partials which could work  very similarly to Compass.

Charles

[Charles Roper]

On 19/10/2009 12:22, Charles Roper wrote:
> Thinking about it, one could actually create a sort of Compass-like
> framework for Haml using it. It could include, or call on, a library of
> pre-built Haml pages, layouts and partials which could work very
> similarly to Compass.

And look, some of the leading lights in the industry are already
promoting this sort of thing, but they're doing it manually:

Colly: http://j.mp/2ETwi0
Malarkey: http://j.mp/1XMVqN

Charles

[Hampton]

Yehuda Katz and I have a Palm Pre game that we built
using Staticmatic/Sass/Haml.

Its JS-based.