If you are trying to use HAML 1.7 and Ruby Gettext, you’ll have problems extracting the string information from the HAML files.
While [teamschnitzel][1] has a solution that almost works, there was a change in HAML 1.7 that will render it useless. HAML deprecated the :precompiled accessor which the GetText Parser needs. Luckily, it’s really simple to add it back to HAML:
Open vendor/plugins/haml/lib/haml/haml/engine.rb and
class Engine # Allow reading and writing of the options hash attr : options, true attr_reader :precompiled add the attr_reader line. Then scroll down in the file until you see the following code:
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