Mysterious spaces in output

rubyonrails-talk
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Here is a probably an easy output formatting problem.

I am trying to output a sentence that uses commas between each item (retailer) and a period once there are no more items.

The problem is, I can't remove the space before my commas in the output. I've tried putting the html in quotes, but for some reason the html injects a space between my variable output and the following text. How can I solve this?

The second problem is my variable count increments correctly, but it does not trigger the 'else'. Any ideas why?

# the output #

...Write a review on Amazon.com , and GAP , and Limited ,

# the view #

<% for review in @reviews -%>   <% count += 1 -%>   <%= link_to review.retailer.name, retailer_path(review) -%>   <%= if count == @reviews      ', '   else     ', and '   end -%> <% end %>

2

%w(foo bar baz).to_sentence

=> "foo, bar, and baz"

3

What a nice nugget! Could you enlighten me as to what the %w does?

4

How could I use a hash with '.to_sentence'. I don't have set variables, and I don't know how many I'll have.

5

Xavier, Thanks! You put me on the right path...

This does a beautiful job:

@reviews.collect {|r| r.retailer.name}.to_sentence

6

It is shorthand for ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'].

7

FYI, the extra spaces were from the indentation of each line of ERB.

--Matt Jones