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In preparing to show off SASS, I found the Compass system, which uses SASS and organizes your stylesheets in a unique way. In this tutorial, I walk you though installing compass, installing the 960 grid system, and organizing your SASS stylesheets in an intelligent way. One note, I couldn’t remember the URL for the 960 [...]

This is a basic demonstration of adding a rake task to Ruby on Rails. Some of the same principles apply to Rake in general. You also see how to call out to the command line and how to convert ERB and HTML to HAML.

Welcome to the Introduction to Sinatra screencast. You may also be interested in our Introduction to Haml screencast, as we will be using some Haml in this video. You might be surprised to find out that if you search on Google for “Sinatra”, the first result is not Ol’ Blue...

In this video tutorial we’ll cover how to use Haml in a new Rails project, how to integrate it into an existing project, and how to convert any pre-existing ERB templates into Haml. If you’re new to Haml, we recommend you first watch our Introduction to Haml screencast. Links Introduction...

Haml is the brain child of Hampton Catlin. In this screencast we’re going to show how Haml can simplify your markup and speed up front-end development. As developers we naturally gravitate towards products or languages that help keep our work clean and organized. Haml is just one of those things....

This is a quick demonstration of how to switch your Rails 3 application to HAML from ERB.

Rob Conery walks you through Sinatra, the lightweight Ruby web framework. Along the way you’ll get to know Vim, HAML, and MongoDB as Rob rebuilds the MVC Music Store completely with Sinatra. "Understanding Rack" is bundled with this production and is Episode 2.

HAML and ERB are two commonly used ruby templating languages. You may have a strong preference for one or the other, but it’s not always up to you which one you use. I was recently asked to convert several HAML files to ERB format. In this episode, I will demonstrate a couple of Vim macros that helped make short work of the task.

We take the search results that were fetched using Twitter in episode 8 and display them on the dashboard.

In this episode we add the ability to remove Search terms from a Brand.