Ruby/Haml: Maintaining white space/indentation in a <pre> tag
I’ve been writing a little web app in which I wanted to display cypher queries inside a <pre> tag which was then prettified using SyntaxHighlighter but I was having problems with how code on new lines was being displayed.
I had the following Haml code to display a query looking up Gareth Bale in a graph:
%pre{ :class => "brush: cypher; gutter: false; toolbar: false;"}
START player = node:players('name:"Gareth Bale"')
RETURN player.nameWhen I rendered the page it looked like this:
After a bit of googling I ended up on this Stack Overflow post which described the preserve helper which seems to do the job:
%pre{ :class => "brush: cypher; gutter: false; toolbar: false;"}
= preserve do
START player = node:players('name:"Gareth Bale"')
RETURN player.nameThat part of the page now looks much better:
