Export files to html about serve

[jlong]

I'm interested in this feature, but it's currently not implemented. There are other engines that do this kind of thing though. Nanoc is an example: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/

[pauld]

This would be a great feature. I've been a part of many projects where haml is not wanted beyond the prototype stage. A full export would allow mockups in haml, without having to sell the rest of the team on the somewhat tedious task of converting new versions of each page to html as the app progresses.

[mitchellfyi]

staticmatic have a nice build module that could do most of the work... http://github.com/staticmatic/staticmatic/blob/master/lib/staticmatic/mixins/build.rb

[jlong]

It would work for Haml, but Serve handles ERB and other formats as well.

[heikki]

I wrote a rake task for exporting a static version.

It copies the static assets and loads from the serve those sass and haml files that don't start with underscore and saves them as css and html files. If links point to regular css and html files, they work in both static and dynamic versions.

Note that your folder structure might be different.

require 'ftools'
require 'open-uri'

site_root = 'http://localhost:4000/'
output_dir = 'deploy/'

desc "Spider the site #{site_root} and save the files under #{output_dir}"
task :spider do
  FileUtils.rm_rf(Dir.glob("#{output_dir}*"))
  files_to_copy = Dir.glob("public/**/[^_]*.{gif,png,jpg,css,js,ico,html}")
  files_to_copy.each do |path|
    save_path = output_dir + path.gsub(/^public\//, "")
    FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(save_path))
    File.copy(path, save_path, true)
  end
  files_to_spider = []
  files_to_spider += Dir.glob("views/**/[^_]*.html.haml").map{|f|f.gsub(/^views\//, "").gsub(".haml", "")}
  files_to_spider += Dir.glob("stylesheets/**/[^_]*.sass").map{|f|f.gsub(".sass", ".css")}
  files_to_spider.each do |path|
    save_path = output_dir + path
    puts "#{path} -> #{output_dir + path}"
    FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(save_path))
    open(site_root + path, 'rb') do |input|
      File.open(save_path, 'wb') do |output|
        output.write(input.read)
      end
    end
  end
end

[tors]

plus 1 for this feature!