Haml Walkthrough: ERB
Now we’re going to walk you through the exact same process with which Haml was created. A well-formatted bit of HTML was changed step-by-step until Haml was born.
Let’s start with an example using ERB. It’s a pretty standard template you might find in any Ruby project. Don’t panic if you aren’t a Rubyist—it’s a straightforward example.
haml/haml_e1.html | |
| <div id=”products”> |
| <%- @products.each do |product| %> |
| <div class=”product” id=”product_<%= product.id %>”> |
| <div class=”name”><%= product.name %></div> |
| <div class=”price”><%= product.price %></div> |
| </div> |
| <% end %> |
| </div> |
Executing this would print out each of the products in @products and assign each one a custom ID like product_23 ...
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