Pretty much need this with every new Rails project I create if only to convert the application.html.erb to Haml (for no other reason than to appease my sense of order).

After creating a new Rails project, in the Gemfile:

#./Gemfile  
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gem 'haml' # you probably have already done this  
group :development do  
  gem 'haml-rails' # you'll want this so all subsequent views are generated using Haml
  gem 'hpricot'
end  
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Then create a new lib/tasks/erb2haml.rake Rake task:

#./lib/tasks/erb2haml.rake  
desc "Creates haml files for each of the erb files found under views (skips existing)"  
task :erb2haml do  
  from_path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'app', 'views')
  Dir["#{from_path}/**/*.erb"].each do |file|
    puts file
    # for each .erb file in the path, convert it & output to a .haml file
    output_file = file.gsub(/\.erb$/, '.haml')
    `bundle exec html2haml -ex #{file} #{output_file}` unless File.exist?(output_file)
  end
end  

Now don't forget that its not rake erb2html, its rake erb2haml!

Originally built this task for each project based on this post.