From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T06:35:27+09:00
Subject: Re: why is this a comile error

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 06:20 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:14 PM, bimo remus wrote:
> 
> > I am doing a tutorial from the Thomas~Hansson book and am getting this
> > error:
> >
> > Extracted source (around line #17):
> >
> > 14:     <%= link_to 'Add to Cart',
> > 15:        		    {:action => 'add_to_cart',
> > 16:       			:id => product },
> > 17:       			class => 'addtocart' %>
> > 18:     </br>
> > 19:   </td>
> > 20:  </tr>
> 
> You are missing one character from the book.  On the last line it's  
> ":class", not "class".  The latter is a reserved word in Ruby with  
> special meaning, thus the problem.

By the way, you will be doing yourself a service to get a text editor
that includes syntax highlighting for Ruby and rhtml. Little mistakes
like this will be much easier to spot.

I know jEdit, Textmate and RadRails all support rhtml highlighting.

Jon

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