ruby - Using layouts in HAML files independently of Rails

Question

My end goal is to create several static HTML files for hand-off to other folks.

But for my workflow, I'd like to have HAML as the basic source files. In doing so, I'd hope to DRY up the process at least on my side.

Now I have a lot of pages that will ultimately be sharing a common layout, and I'm wondering how to incorporate the layouts.

Here's my current code:

./compile.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'rake'
require 'haml'

FileList.new('./src/*.html.haml').each do |filename|
  if filename =~ /([^/]+).haml$/
    File.open($1, 'w') do |f|
      f.write Haml::Engine.new(File.read(filename)).render
    end
  end
end

./src/layout.html.haml

!!!
%html
  %head
    %title Yay
  %body
    = yield

./src/home.html.haml

= render :layout => 'header' do
  %p This is awesome

Now this clearly doesn't work because the render method is undefined out of the context of Rails, but I hope it gets the point across what I'm trying to do.

Any suggestions?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6125265/using-layouts-in-haml-files-independently-of-rails