[LRUG] Managing static sites with Haml & Sass

[Andrew Stewart]

Hi Steve,

> StaticMatic doesn't actually use Rails, but I agree with your
> points.  Sometimes it's great to take advantage of benefits of a
> dynamic site such as keeping things DRY and structured, but with the
> flexibility and speed of a static site.

Oops!  I should have paid more attention :)

> Regarding using ERB, it's certainly possibly.  I was mainly trying to
> avoid writing tons of HTML so that's why I've used Haml.  The
> additional helpers are currently Haml specific, but that shouldn't be
> a huge thing to change.

Maybe I should follow your lead and just learn HAML.  It would  
probably take less time for me to get up to speed than to hack your  
code around to make the templating pluggable.

> I'm just setting up the project on Rubyforge so you'll be able to
> access the latest code then.  It would defiantly be interesting to
> see if it can be integrated into ActionView.  I'm working on
> configuration so it could be an option there.

Great.  Looking forward to it.

Regards,
Andy Stewart