Mirvoda Sergey randomThoughts.ForEach(blog.Add(though.ToString()));http://weblogs.asp.net/mirvodasergey/atom.aspxCommunity Server2008-06-02T20:27:00ZIntroducing MonoRail NHAMLhttp://weblogs.asp.net/mirvodasergey/archive/2008/06/02/introducing-monorail-nhaml.aspx2008-06-02T14:27:00Z2008-06-02T14:27:00Z<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="5">Introduction<o:p></o:p></font></span></h1><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">It is about four months passed since </font><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/joestagner"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Joe Stagner</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> activated my Blog on </font><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://weblogs.asp.net</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">. All that time I could not make a decision how to become a new community member, because the level of </font><a href="http://null/weblogs.asp.net/fbouma"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">some</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><a href="http://null/weblogs.asp.net/rosherove"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">other</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><a href="http://null/weblogs.asp.net/astopford/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">people</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><a href="http://null/weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">here</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> so impressive, that very hard to be notable. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some time ago I found very interesting project </font><a href="http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">HAML</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">. The idea behind this project is to make markup easy to read and fun to write. It very impressed me and I decided to implement View Engine for upcoming ASP.NET MVC Framework. Unfortunately (for me of course :)), it was already implemented by this </font><a href="http://andrewpeters.net/2007/12/19/introducing-nhaml-an-aspnet-mvc-view-engine/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">guy</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Not a problem! I simply decided to port Andrew’s work to the Castle Monorail (ASP.NET MVC elder brother) and extended Andrew’s work a bit. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="5">Here is a result of my (and Andrew) work.<o:p></o:p></font></span></h1>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Full HAML support – implemented by Andrew Peters<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></li>
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<span style="" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://andrewpeters.net/2007/12/19/introducing-nhaml-an-aspnet-mvc-view-engine/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://andrewpeters.net/2007/12/19/introducing-nhaml-an-aspnet-mvc-view-engine/</font></a><o:p></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">MonoRail Layouts, Helpers, Partial Support <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></li>
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<span style="" lang="EN-US"><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><o:p></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> <img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/LayoutAndPartials.png" ilo-full-src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/LayoutAndPartials.png" title="MonoRail NHAML" style="width: 854px; height: 683px;" alt="MonoRail NHAML" mce_src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/LayoutAndPartials.png" align="middle" height="683" width="854"></font></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span>
<p><img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/FormHelper.png" ilo-full-src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/FormHelper.png" title="MonoRail NHAML" style="width: 413px; height: 521px;" alt="MonoRail NHAML" mce_src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/FormHelper.png" align="middle" height="521" width="413"></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Support for Macros, Parameters, Dictionaries, Rescues – you can even write c# in your View :)</font></font></span></li>
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<span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></o:p></span> <span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span> <img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/ViewComponentSupport.png" ilo-full-src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/ViewComponentSupport.png" title="MonoRail NHAML" style="width: 939px; height: 750px;" alt="MonoRail NHAML" mce_src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/ViewComponentSupport.png" align="middle" height="750" width="939">
<p><img src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/macroSupport.png" ilo-full-src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/macroSupport.png" style="width: 928px; height: 487px;" mce_src="http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/mirvodasergey/Images/macroSupport.png" align="middle" height="487" width="928"></p>
<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="5">Source code and downloads<o:p></o:p></font></span></h1><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">You can check out full code with samples form </font><a href="http://w4x.unfuddle.com/svn/w4x_mrnhaml"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://w4x.unfuddle.com/svn/w4x_mrnhaml</font></a><o:p></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Username – user password – user<o:p></o:p></font></font></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></o:p></span>
<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font size="5">Work is incomplete<o:p></o:p></font></span></h1>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">There are many things that should be implemented – full test support, type cache for views, code clean up. If you are interested and want to implement such a feature – </font><a href="http://www.ayende.com/Blog/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">send me a patch for</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> it </font></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""><font size="3">:)</font></span></span></p>
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