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

The solution that I got working is:

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

You can use =, though = is used to output the result of Rails code, but here it will server the purpose.