defining helper proc within a haml file in rails

[Andrew Brown]

Sometimes I find it useful to define a little helper proc within a haml view in a rails app, but the syntax I've come up with is pretty horrible.  I'm wondering if there is a good way to do this.  Here's an example:

- strong_name = lambda do |object| capture do
  - 2.times do
    %strong= object.name
- end end

= strong_name.call(object)

So I have a few questions

1) Is there a terser/better way to say this?

2) Why can't I use curly braces in place of either do/end?

3) Assume that there is no good answer to #1, would there be value in a helper method that combines this into some sort of 'capture_proc' function that does the capture and the lamda together so you could write:

- strong_name = capture_proc do |object|
  - 2.times do
    %strong= object.name

I hope this is the right forum for this sort of question; if it's not, I'd welcome any suggestions about where to post this.  Thanks for your help,

Andrew

[Andrew Brown]

To folow up, here's the helper I created to do just this:

  def capture_proc
    proc { |*args| capture_haml { yield *args } }
  end