Problem using Locomotive

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Hi,

I've installed locomotive and all seemed to be fine. The localhost works and I can make a new project and generate controllers, views etc. However as soon as I put some Ruby code in a view html page I get a Syntax Error. Even just trying to use date won't work.

Anyone know where I'm going wrong? I'm keen to get coding!

Thanks in advance.

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Go ahead and paste the contents of your view.html file and also copy-and-paste the exact error you're getting. That will help us find the problem.

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hello.rhtml in app/views/say

<html>   <head>     <title>Hello, Rails!</title>   </head>   <body>     <h1>Hello from Rails</h1>     <p>      It is now <%/= @time %>.     </p>   </body> </html>

say_controller.rb in app/controllers

class SayController < ApplicationController   def hello    @time = Time.now   end end

http://localhost:3000/say/hello

SyntaxError in Say#hello

Showing app/views/say/hello.rhtml where line #1 raised:

compile error /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: unknown regexp option - p /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: parse error, unexpected $undefined. _erbout = ''; _erbout.concat "<html>\r <head>\r <title>Hello, Rails!</title>\r </head>\r <body>\r <h1>Hello from Rails</h1>\r <p>\r It is now "; /= @time ; _erbout.concat ".\r </p>\r </body>\r</html>\r"; _erbout

                                                        ^ /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: unknown regexp options - htl /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: parse error, unexpected $undefined. _erbout = ''; _erbout.concat "<html>\r <head>\r <title>Hello, Rails!</title>\r </head>\r <body>\r <h1>Hello from Rails</h1>\r <p>\r It is now "; /= @time ; _erbout.concat ".\r </p>\r </body>\r</html>\r"; _erbout

    ^ /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: unterminated string meets end of file /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/../app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1: parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND Extracted source (around line #1):

1: <html>   <head>     <title>Hello, Rails!</title>   </head>   <body>     <h1>Hello from Rails</h1>     <p>      It is now <%/= @time %>.     </p>   </body> </html> Trace of template inclusion: /app/views/say/hello.rhtml

RAILS_ROOT: /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/..

Paul Welty wrote:

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Thankyou - Any help appreciated. I can't get past this error.

cmcfarland wrote:

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hello.rhtml in app/views/say

Hello, Rails!

Hello from Rails

 It is now <%/= @time %>.

Remove the forward slash in this line. ERb tags are <%= %> (output rendered) or <% %> (output not rendered).

Matt

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It is now <%/= @time %>

Seems to be a simple typeing error... See the slash ( / ) you have in front of the " = " ? thats wrong ... the parser seems to see it as ather start of a regular expression pattern, which are usually ecapsulated in slashes .. /pattern/

try: It is now <%= @time %>