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

I came across a similar problem and found this so I thought I would post another solution which doesn't require a helper method. Use Ruby interpolation #{} to wrap the link and if statements:

I will first 
#{link_to 'link somewhere', 'http://example.com'}#{if true : ", then render this half of the sentence if a condition is met" end}

This works in 3.0.18, it may also work in earlier releases.