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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 30, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/collection-each-x-puts-x-in-rhtml/62043 "2006-05-30T23:35:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@brez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brez)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/collection-each-x-puts-x-in-rhtml/62043/1 "2006-05-30T23:35:27Z")
Been trying to use the short format for a collection in rhtml, i.e.
\<% collection.each {|x| puts x} %\>
Doesn’t seem to work though [outputs nothing]
?
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**Author:**  [@brez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brez)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/collection-each-x-puts-x-in-rhtml/62043/2 "2006-05-30T23:56:13Z")
puts doesn’t work in erb…
try…
\<% collection.each do |x| %\>
\<%= x %\>
\<% end %\>
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**Author:**  [@brez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brez)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/collection-each-x-puts-x-in-rhtml/62043/3 "2006-05-31T00:07:20Z")
> \<% collection.each do |x| %\>
> \<%= x %\>
> \<% end %\>
in your .mab:
comment.each(&:text) or whatever…
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**Author:**  [@brez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brez)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/collection-each-x-puts-x-in-rhtml/62043/4 "2006-05-31T00:11:32Z")
On 30-May-06, at 2:35 PM, brez! !! wrote:
> Been trying to use the short format for a collection in rhtml, i.e.
>
> \<% collection.each {|x| puts x} %\>
>
> Doesn’t seem to work though [outputs nothing]
>
> ?
Hey,
how about \<%= collection.join %\>
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