Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HAML file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HAML to another file type
To convert HAML files to another format, you need Ruby on Rails or other Developer software.
Convert a file to HAML
To convert other file formats to the "Markup Language Template" file type, you need software like Ruby on Rails or a similar tool.
About HAML files
.HAML files are HTML Abstraction Markup Language templates. Developers use them in Ruby on Rails applications to write HTML templates faster. The syntax relies on indentation instead of traditional opening and closing tags. You can open and edit a .HAML file using code editors like Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text. The main disadvantage of the .HAML format is that web browsers cannot render it directly. If you try to open a .HAML file in Chrome or Safari, you will only see raw text and code snippets. Furthermore, the format is extremely sensitive to whitespace; a single wrong space or a mix of tabs and spaces breaks the entire template. You normally need a Ruby environment with the Haml gem installed to compile it into a usable format. We recommend converting .HAML to HTML to view the actual webpage structure in a browser. You might also convert it to ERB if you are migrating a Rails project back to standard embedded Ruby syntax. Because .HAML relies on a specific compiler logic, generic online converters often fail to process it correctly. Our platform can inspect the plain text nature of the file so you can read the internal content without installing heavy developer tools.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HAML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HAML file to HTML, ERB, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use Ruby on Rails or similar software from the "HTML Template Generation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to HAML, try Ruby on Rails or another comparable tool in the "HTML Template Generation" category.
The HAML Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HAML converter.