Question

My default templating engine is haml, but I would to sometimes change it to erb if i specify a specific parameter?

For example, I am pasting in some html code and would just like to test the code without HAML complaining about its format.

Any idea how to do this?

Answer 1

do something like:

if params[:render_erb]
  render 'file.html.erb'
else
  render 'file.html.haml'
end

and call the action with ?render_erb=true

or

render "file.html.#{params[:render]}" ir params[:render]

and call it ?render=haml or ?render=erb (or nothing and it will use the default

at the end of the controller’s action that you are using