title: Haml: Control whitespace around text
body: <p>In my Rails template, I'd like to accomplish final HTML to this effect using HAML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>I will first &lt;a href="http://example.com"&gt;link somewhere&lt;/a&gt;, then render this half of the sentence if a condition is met
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The template that comes close:</p>
  
  <pre><code>I will first
  = link_to 'link somewhere', 'http://example.com'
  - if @condition
    , then render this half of the sentence if a condition is met
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>You may, however, note that this produces a space between the link and the comma. Is there any practical way to avoid this whitespace? I know there's syntax to remove whitespace around tags, but can this same syntax be applied to just text? I really don't like the solution of extra markup to accomplish this.</p>