Rails 3.2+ best practice for using Haml to generate Javascript templates (JST)

Question

I asked a specific question about problems I'm having with a specific gem intended to do this in a separate thread ( https://stackoverflow.com/q/18577033/1206117?sem=2 )

But I feel I may be on the "wrong boat" somehow because all of the questions I find about Rails/Haml/JST-templates are at least 2 years old, or go unanswered.

I'm writing an app with a lot of client-side JS and so want to use templates to render views (I'm using Backbone). I want to use Haml to write the templates.

I'm not looking for a debate about which gem/method is better, I'm looking for A WAY that works and has current support and active use. At present I cannot write my JS templates in Haml, and it's a bummer. I'm avoiding CoffeeScript at present since I'm still rather new to Javascript.

Answer 1

Looks like https://github.com/netzpirat/haml_coffee_assets gives you what you want. (window.JST templates, written in HAML, with inline coffescript support)

Answer 2

I've submitted an issue to the haml git repo.

https://github.com/haml/haml/issues/716