How can I include an arbitrary file into a HAML template?

Question

I want to have independent .markdown files that I then include in my haml templates. So I want to somehow include -- not render -- an external file into the template. I want the parent file to have :markdown in it, with the inclusion directly below that, and then the .markdown file to just be pure markdown.

Or: Is there a way to just use markdown as a rails template language (same way i can write templates or partials in erb or haml and rails just figures it out)?

Answer 1

This is similar to your solution, but using the :markdown filter. Haml does string interpolation on any filtered text, so you can read the markdown file like this.

:markdown
  #{File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "foo.markdown"))}

You could put this into a helper, but you'd have to be careful with the file paths.