Rails 7.1 Released

Re:Rails 7.1 Released by aaronbrethorst on Friday October 06, 2023 @01:35AM (#37787401)

I haven't used Slim before, but looking at the examples shown on the repo's README, it immediately brought to mind the thought experiment: 'what if Haml but Yaml?'

n.b., I've been building Rails apps since 2007. I was a diehard Haml user up until about 2021 when I made an all-in bet on Tailwind and had to switch back to ERB because Haml with Tailwind felt too obtuse.

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Re:Rails 7.1 Released by andrei_says_ on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:05AM (#37788519)

I’ve used slim for years and it’s incredible. Writing erb now feels painful. Slim is clean, terse, and correct.

The only downside is I am now spoiled.

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Re:Rails 7.1 Released by petepete on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:40AM (#37788730)

Slim is really nice for some things but the moment you want to style words within sentences or paragraphs it gets really messy and you have to start using unintuitive syntax like `|<` or `|<>` to get the spacing right.

You can of course just drop to `markdown:`.

Still, I use it where I can on personal stuff, but tend to opt for Erb when collaboration with others is needed.

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Re:Rails 7.1 Released by throwthrow5643 on Friday October 06, 2023 @06:14AM (#37788884)

I'd like to use haml on the front end rather than ugly ternary ridden JSX. I always thought haml was very tasteful.

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