On: What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?

[mhartl]

Haml is great for many cases, but it's terrible when the ratio of text to embedded code gets large. Chris Eppstein, one of the developers of Haml, made a blog post to this effect last year:

http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/02/08/haml-sucks-f...

As a result, though I love Haml, I think ERb is a more sensible default.

[erikpukinskis → mhartl]

I feel like if you've got lots of text and embedded code mixed together in a template there's probably something wrong with your architecture.

For the few cases where that makes sense, ERb is great. But I have a hard time imagining it's common enough to make it the default.

Edit: Also, the post you linked to outlines several simple ways to mix text into your HAML (inlining HTML, using markdown filters, etc)

[bonzoesc → mhartl]

I think ERB ends up kind of ugly for prose too; adding rdiscount as a dependency and using the markdown filter in Haml is usually how I do it.

[mhartl → bonzoesc]

Sounds like a good solution. I'll have to try that out.

[chriseppstein → mhartl]

Full Disclosure: I am not a haml developer. I'm a haml user -- I only develop on sass.

[mhartl → chriseppstein]

Oops, by bad.