Rails - adjusting the number of spaces using Slim
I recently switched to slim and so far everything is going well. One thing I noticed after running the scaffold for one of my model views:
= link_to 'Edit', edit_movie_path(@movie)
'|
= link_to 'Back', movies_path
Unlike erb, there is no space in front of the pipe that displays these two links like
Edit| Back
As a newbie with slim, I was wondering if it was possible to add space before and after characters.
I also noticed that on the same scaffold there was no space separating colons from the text. For example:
Title: Rush Hour
Title:Rush Hour
To fix this, I had to either add a space right after the word name or insert one quote directly below.
# Option 1
p
b Title: # Add space where the hashtag is currenty
= @movie.title
# Option 2
p
strong Title:
'
= @movie.title
Is there an alternative to the two? I find that for the first addition, the invisible space may not be obvious to other developers / someone going back to the code, and the second adds a completely new line for just one character.
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According to the documentation
You can force Slim to add trailing spaces after the tag by adding a>.
b> Title: =@movie.title
For your second (actually first) problem, after I browsed this site I came up with this
| #{link_to 'Edit', edit_movie_path(@movie)} | #{link_to 'Back', movies_path}
the |
tells thin verbatim to interpret the next line, and the two ruby link_to statements are separated by*space*|*space*
Also this works
=' link_to 'Edit', edit_movie_path(@movie)
'|
= link_to 'Back', movies_path
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