Removing extra whitespace from Haml

Most of the time, Haml is pretty awesome. One of the cases where it's not so awesome is around multiline mixed Ruby/HTML. For example, when trying to create a timer on the screen:

Because of reasons, Haml decides to add extra whitespace around each of the span tags. Sometimes this is desirable, but sometimes you want to remove the whitespace/extra space around Haml tags. As usual, there is a quick fix, in this case the '>' character:

undefined method `capture_haml' for RSpec

If you're using Haml in a Rails project, testing with RSpec, you might encounter the "undefined method 'capture_haml' for ..." error while trying to run your specs. I encountered this error in a view spec when trying to use Simple Form along with Haml. Fortunately, like many other obscure bugs there is a quick and dirty solution: The init_haml_helpers section is necessary to prevent other errors from happening.

Note that all lines are required. If you drop the init_haml_helpers line, you'll get the following error:
ActionView::Template::Error: undefined method `capture_position=' for nil:NilClass
and of course if you don't have any of this, you will get:
ActionView::Template::Error: undefined method `capture_haml' for #<RSpec::ExampleGroups::...