Trivial syntax error: Unexpected ')'

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I am a Rails newbie but have programmed other languages/frameworks earlier.

There's a trivial syntax error I can't for the life of me figure out. I am following the well-known Ruby On InstantRails tutorial from here: http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/tutorial/index.html

I am overriding the default 'edit' method on the recipe controller. I get the error in the edit.rhtml while creating the drop down for displaying categories.

The relevant snippet is produced below:

<tr>         <td>Category</td>         <td>           <select id="cboCategory" name="recipe[category_id]">             <%= @categories.each do |category| %>             <option value="category.id" <%= 'selected' if @recipe.category_id == category.id %> >               <%= category.name %>             </option>             <% end %>           </select>         </td>       </tr>

I don't see anything wrong with that. However, I get an error as follows:

compile error ./script/../config/../app/views/recipe/edit.rhtml:37: syntax error, unexpected ')' _erbout.concat "\t\t\t\t\t\t"; _erbout.concat(( @categories.each do | category> ).to_s); _erbout.concat "\n"

^ ./script/../config/../app/views/recipe/edit.rhtml:87: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting ')'

I can gather it is complaining about some misplaced paranthesis and 'end' statement. However, there is no other enumeration/anonymous code block in the code other than the one shown above.

Help appreciated.

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Good lord! I can be so careless. Thanks a lot, Thorsten Muller. This is the second time I made this mistake. I'll be more careful for myself in the future.

Mukesh

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Just one other thing.

The 'textarea' I have for displaying instructions inserts many leading and trailing spaces around the actual values. I checked and the database records also have the leading and trailing spaces.

However, when I choose to edit a record and trim the trailing and leading spaces around the instructions and issue an update, the spaces are not trimmed. The next time I edit the record, they still appear.

Can you help me with this?