How do I use HAML to render JSON views in Rails3?

Question

I'd like to have my controller render json views, as .json.haml ... is this possible? What is the syntax like? Or would I need to use something else for JSON templating? such as http://inem.github.com/tequila.html ?

Answer 1

HAML is intented for use to generate HTML markup.

If you need to render json, just call render passing :json as an option within your controller:

render :json => my_object

Or if you have a more complex data structure and/or require more flexibility try JSON Builder , it's a template engine for JSON, similar to the XML builder provided in Rails.