Why We Chose Slim Templates Over ERB or HAML: A Deep Dive into Rails Blueprint's View Layer
When building Rails Blueprint, one of our earliest architectural decisions was choosing the templating engine. While ERB comes built-in with Rails and HAML has a strong following, we chose SlimвАФand after thousands of lines of production code, we're confident it was the right choice.
This article explores why Slim templates power Rails Blueprint, backed by real performance data, developer productivity metrics, and practical examples from our codebase.
