How can I write a percent sign (%) at the beginning of a line in HAML?

Question

How can I start a line with a percent in HAML file?

This doesn't work:

%p
  = my_ruby_var
  %

=== UPDATE ===

Note: This answer is not accepted. I don't want any ruby to be computed:

%p
  = my_ruby_var
  = '%'

=== UPDATE 2 ===

For info: I discovered in the same doc reference that it is also possible to escape HTML as well:

An ampersand followed by one or two equals characters evaluates Ruby code just like the equals without the ampersand, but sanitizes any HTML-sensitive characters in the result of the code.

For example:

&= "I like cheese & crackers"

compiles to

I like cheese & crackers

Answer 1

try

\%

maybe..

because it said in http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#escaping_ that \ is the escape character