New views should be html.haml or html.erb

[vicramon]

If you type :Rview home/index! then you get app/views/home with no file extension.

The Rails generators will give you a html.erb file, or a html.haml file if you have the haml-rails gem. You can try this with rails g controller home index. Could Rview do the same thing?

[tpope]

Yeah maybe if you can find a cheap way to figure out which one we should use. Personally I don't think typing out the extensions is that big of deal.

[vicramon]

It's not a big deal, but I dislike having to do it all the time.

Could you do the same thing you did to handle the creation of new javascript files? That just checks to see if the coffee-rails gem is there, right?

[tpope]

Difference there is that coffee-rails is the only serious contender in JavaScript generation, and it's official, whereas haml-rails is just the most popular of a long tail of alternative template languages. I used to have a hard coded list of template extensions and it was a constant headache to maintain.

There's also a lot of convolution around the first (format) extension being optional which introduces further complication.

If you want to tackle, start by coming up with an approach just to default it to html.erb, and let me see what that looks like. Other than that I'm leaving this be.