Haml modification for i18n

I'm using the haml plugin in my rails application. In haml you can output plaintext like this: %div plaintext here

Since i never output plaintext in my view because i use i18n i decided to modify haml: %div my.i18n.key.here

So instead of outputting plaintext, you supply a i18n-key and haml outputs the translated text that belongs to that key.

The modification is quick & dirty and just a few lines long:
Go to the haml precompiler.rb and find the render_tag method. There should be a 'switch action' switch. Add the following lines to the switch: switch action #[...] when '', nil if not value.blank? parse = true key, params = value.scan(/\A[^,]+|[^,].*\Z/) params = ',' + params unless params.blank? value = "_('#{key}'#{params})" end end #[...] end
This assumes that '_' is the method that is used for i18n. You can even append parameters: %div my.i18n.key.here, :param1 => 'value'
This invokes _('my.i18n.key.here',:param1 => 'value')