---
name: "haml"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-haml"
version: "6.3.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/haml"
---

# haml(1)

Translates Haml markup into its HTML equivalent

## NAME

haml - Translates Haml markup into its HTML equivalent

## SYNOPSIS

**haml** \[options\] \[INPUT\] \[OUTPUT\]

## DESCRIPTION

Uses the Haml engine to parse the selected template and outputs the result to the specified file.

## OPTIONS

- **--rails RAILS\_DIR**

  Install Haml and Sass to a Rails project

- **-c, --check**

  Just check syntax, don't evaluate.

- **-s, --stdin**

  Read input from standard input instead of an input file

- **--trace**

  Show a full traceback on error

- **-t, --style NAME**

  Output style. Can be indented (default) or ugly.

- **-f, --format NAME**

  Output format. Can be xhtml (default), html4, or html5.

- **-e, --escape-html**

  Escape HTML characters (like ampersands and angle brackets) by default.

- **-q, --double-quote-attributes**

  Set attribute wrapper to double-quotes (default is single).

- **-r, --require FILE**

  Same as 'ruby -r'.

- **-I, --load-path PATH**

  Same as 'ruby -I'.

- **--debug**

  Print out the precompiled Ruby source.

- **-?, -h, --help**

  Show a usage summary

- **-v, --version**

  Print version

## SEE ALSO

This program is shipped as part of the libhaml-ruby1.8 library package, you can check its corresponding documentation can be found in the libhaml-ruby-doc package.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Gunnar Wolf \<gwolf@debian.org\>, based on the command-line output of this program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be freely used by others).