One more question — in the original MVC the FooController would check the Views/Foo folder and then check the Views/Shared folder if it could not find a proper view. It appears that you’ve removed this behaviour to take advantage of Layouts? Is there any way to accomplish the default MVC behaviour as I share the same view across many controllers.

If I have a view called PortfolioIndex.haml in the Shared folder, MVC can’t find it (File not found exception for Views\Portfolio\PortfolioIndex.haml)

Peter

That did it. Many thanks for the quick helpful response and of course NHaml itself.

Peter

Cheers,

Andrew.

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I’m using VS2008 with MVC Preview 4. My model uses Nhibernate.

Yep, that should be it. What does your Output window say?

Cheers,

Andrew.

Did you pull the latest source from Google Code? In there is a sample MVC project you can use as a starting point.

Cheers,

Andrew.

I downloaded your source, took out the NHaml.dll and NHaml.Web.Mvc.dll and referenced them in my MVC Preview 4 project. I also added the

ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(new NHaml.Web.Mvc.NHamlControllerFactory());

line to my Global.asax file. My app won’t build now (although it did before and does if I remove the references to the two DLLs). Did I miss something in the configuration process (web.config modifications maybe)?

Great working! Look forward to

Add a method such as this to your base class:

public void Render(TextWriter outputWriter, int timing)
{
Timing = timing;

((ICompiledTemplate)this).Render(outputWriter);
}

Hope this helps,

Andrew.

Latest releases tell that you are hardly working on NHaml performance now. Thank you!

Let me ask you a question regarding recent changes in NHaml core. I try using NHaml in scenarios much more simple than ASP.NET MVC. So, let’s imagine I want to build a web page and dynamically insert a phrase “It took %d seconds to prepare data for this page” somewhere on it. WHat I did with NHaml 1.0 ? I created data class TestNHamlData with Timing property. Then I used the lines

templateCompiler.ViewBaseType = typeof(TestNHamlData);
Type viewType = templateCompiler.Compile(template, layout);
ICompiledView view = (ICompiledView)Activator.CreateInstance(viewType);

After some digging in code I knew that NHaml generates a class inherited from my TestNHamlData and implementing ICompiledView interface. Thus, view is an object of this class, and the following will work:

TestNHamlData viewData = view as TestNHamlData; // thank to TestNHamlData inheritance
viewData.Timing = elapsedTime;
output = view.Render(); // thank to ICompiledView interface

… and I am happy with up-to-date data in generated output.

What is in new version? Instead of Activator there is TemplateActivator which is generic delegate for calling a dynamic method with Reflection.Emit inside. Much faster way of generation! But how to set my last-minute-data to generated object before rendering if ViewType with both base class and ICompiledView interface is not available anymore?

I will greatly appreciate your comments.