Installing #haml in your heroku app
EDIT: THIS POST IS NO LONGER RELEVANT
I’ve been playing around with Heroku lately. It’s a very nice dev and deployment environment for Rails apps. If you need to get a basic Rails app developed and deployed quickly, this is a nice turnkey solution.
But, it does have its quirks. One of which is #haml, the gem for which doesn’t seem to exist in the heroku system. Fortunately, Heroku is running Rails 2.2.2 which makes it very easy to stick those gems in /vendor/gems (good practice anyway).
Just add “config.gem ‘haml’” to your config/environment.rb and run “rake gems:unpack”. It’s all very simple. Here’s what it looks like:
