How do I put a link in the middle of a paragraph with HAML?

Question

How do I create this:

<p>
  I would like to make a <a href="foo.html">link</a> in my Rails app.
</p>

with HAML?

Answer 1

1.

%p
  I would like to make a
  %a
    link
  in my Rails app.

2.

%p
  I would like to make a <a href="#">link</a> in my Rails app.

Answer 2

The "pure" HAML way:

%p
  I would like to make a 
  %a{:href => "foo.html"} link
  in my Rails app.

Using the Rails link_to helper:

%p
  I would like to make a 
  =link_to "link", "foo.html"
  in my Rails app.

Answer 3

I recommend reading Chris Eppstein's post "Haml Sucks for Content", and using something like Markdown or Textile to handle inline markup. I'm a big fan of Haml for document structure and a simple link in a paragraph is simple enough, but Haml starts to get out of control pretty fast.