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

Alright, here's the solution I'm settling on:

Helper

def one_line(&block)
  haml_concat capture_haml(&block).gsub("\n", '').gsub('\\n', "\n")
end

View

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

That way, whitespace is excluded by default, but I can still explicitly include it with a "\n" line. (It needs the double-backslash because otherwise HAML interprets it as an actual newline.) Let me know if there's a better option out there!