Equivalent of {strip} in rails

Is there an equivalent to Smarty's {strip} in erb?

To clarify:

I'm not looking for .strip. Read the docs on Smarty's {strip};

Whitespace between tags is significant and matters very much when you try to match widths and so on. For example, if you have this code:

<ul>
    <li>Something</li>
    <li>Something else</li>
</ul>

and the lis have display: inline, there will be a space between them even if they have no margin. That space appears because of the whitespace between </li> and <li>. So, the only solution to not have that space between the <li>s is to do this:

<ul><li>Something</li><li>Something else</li></ul>

Which is pretty fugly and you 开发者_JAVA百科end up with huge, unreadable lines when you start putting <a>s in the <li>s and so on.

There is always the "traditional" method of putting spaces inside the tags (still valid XML):

<ul
  ><li><a href="#">bla</a></li
  ><li><a href="#">bla</a></li
></ul>

You have the following options

• in Haml you can do with > and <
• in ERB the ERB::Compiler::TrimScanner maybe could help you out, but I've never used it. As far as I understand, it would look like this: <%w capture do %> here comes your code with whitespaces <% end %>