Rails: Is it possible to write view helpers with HAML syntax?

Question

During refactoring it would be quite handy just to copy part of HAML template and paste it to helper\'s code. Currently in such cases 1) I have to rewrite that part of view from

Answer 1

Haml now has a capture_haml method that you can use to accomplish this.

  def some_helper
    capture_haml do
      .some_class
        = yield
      #some-code-after
    end
  end

some_helper do
  %h1 Hello World
end
=> 

     
Hello World
   
   

Here is a link with more info on capture_haml: http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/Haml/Helpers.html#capture_haml-instance_method