Haml For Grails

Writing a Grails app? Find out why so many Rubyists swear by Haml for writing views.

<!-- GSP/JSP --> <div id="profile"> <div class="left column"> <div id="date"><%= date %></div> <div id="address"><%= user.address %></div> </div> <div class="right column"> <div id="email"><%= user.email %></div> <div id="bio"><%= user.bio %></div> </div> </div> view raw haml-example1.jsp hosted with ❤ by GitHub

/ Haml #profile .left.column #date= date #address= user.address .right.column #email= user.email #bio= user.bio view raw haml-example1.haml hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Interested parties have created JHaml, a Java implementation of Haml, and a corresponding Grails plugin. (Patches welcome!)

To try it out, just grab the plugin:

grails install-plugin haml

Then add this bean definition to your grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy.

	beans = { // ...
	groovyPageResourceLoader(com.cadrlife.jhaml.grailsplugin.HamlGroovyPageResourceLoader) {
	baseResource = new org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource(".")
	}
	}

view raw grails-haml-0.1-resources.groovy hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Now, you have the option of writing views (with the .haml extension) that will be automatically rendered to GSPs.

Learn more in the Haml tutorial.

Official Grails Plugin Page