Haml: Control whitespace around text

Question

In my Rails template, I\'d like to accomplish final HTML to this effect using HAML:

I will first link somewhere         


        

Answer 1

A better way to do this has been introduced via Haml's helpers:

surround

= surround '(', ')' do
  %a{:href => "food"} chicken

Produces:

(chicken)

succeed:

click
= succeed '.' do
  %a{:href=>"thing"} here

Produces:

click
here.

precede:

= precede '*' do
  %span.small Not really

Produces:

*Not really

To answer the original question:

I will first
= succeed ',' do
  = link_to 'link somewhere', 'http://example.com'
- if @condition
  then render this half of the sentence if a condition is met

Produces:

I will first
link somewhere,
then render this half of the sentence if a condition is met