Yes its 2011 and Rails 3 has been out for a year but as far as I can tell, and many git reset --hard HEAD attempts later, haml requires the gem haml-rails to generate views. Even though Google may show results from 2010 they are still relevant. But haml --rails isn't what you want.

So Haml configuration in my Rails 3.0.9 project looks like (only relevant parts shown)...

#Gemfile  
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gem 'haml'  
group :development do  
  gem 'haml-rails'
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end

#./config/application.rb  
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module IlkContent  
  class Application < Rails::Application
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  config.generators do |g|
    g.template_engine :haml
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  end
end  
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