Haml monkeypatch to strip newline characters between HTML tags

gistfile1.rb

require 'haml/engine'

module Haml::Precompiler
  alias original_flush_merged_text flush_merged_text
  
  def flush_merged_text
    @to_merge.each_with_index do |item, i|
      next_item = @to_merge[i + 1]
      item[1].chomp!("\n") if item[1][0, 1] == '<' and (!next_item or next_item[1][0, 1] == '<')
    end
    original_flush_merged_text
  end
end