How to start a Rails 3 app with HAML and SASS as the default templates?

Question

the line

rails new someapp -m haml

doesn't work. It seems to need a path to some where.

Update: haml-rails is in fact installed by gem install haml-rails but the line above wouldn't work.

Answer 1

The really short version

Generate a new rails app based on a simple template that sets up Haml out of the box (and some other nice optional features).

rails new ProjectName -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails3-application-templates/master/rails3-haml-html5-template.rb

http://decielo.com/articles/377/haml-by-default-in-a-new-rails-3-2-app

Also check this out:

https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer

EDIT:

If you want to do this through the "gem" you simply need to run the default command

rails new myapp -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer/master/composer.rb

This is a safe command as it points to the master branch of the gem and will be a stable URL. Once you have run this command you will be prompted with options. Simply select HAML and SASS when asked by the wizard.

Answer 2

Gem haml-rails allows to generate views in Haml, but not the initial layout.

After running rails new someapp (note: w/o -m haml) and adding line gem "haml-rails" to your Gemfile, you just need to rename application.html.erb to application.html.haml and manually convert its content from ERB to Haml.

After that, all generated views will be in Haml.