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UPDATE: Some people reported problems while downloading the files. Now, you can download them from here.

Recently, I have been using Haml in some my Rails projects. It simply makes your views clean and readable. One issue I had was syntax highlighting in my favorite IDE, Aptana Studio. The Haml syntax highlighting support has been stopped a while ago and more issues have raised after Aptana recent updates.

After some research, I found a solution posted by Max Kostovetski, a member of Haml Google group. Now, to the steps:

1. Download the following files to your hard drive:
   • http://haml.googlegroups.com/web/haml_lexer.lxr
   • http://haml.googlegroups.com/web/haml.col
   • http://haml.googlegroups.com/web/sass_lexer.lxr
   • http://haml.googlegroups.com/web/sass.col
2. From Aptana "Window" menu, select "Preferences..."
3. In the the preferences window, select "Editors" > "Generic Text"
4. Press "Add..." to add new file extensions: *.haml and *.sass
5. For each of the new extensions, click it and press "Browse..." to select the proper lexer file (*.lxr)
6. For colorization, press "Import..." to import the *.col files
7. Press "OK"
8. Enjoy you Haml views

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