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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 28, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comment-out-rhtml-code/74665 "2006-02-28T12:58:27Z")\
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**Author:**  [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comment-out-rhtml-code/74665/1 "2006-02-28T12:58:27Z")
I’d like to be able to comment out a few lines of RHTML code easily.
With HTML you can just surround the code in , but if you
do that with the RHTML, it still gets executed, then the resulting
HTML is commented out. Sometimes I’d like to be able to leave the
code in but not have it evaluated…usually just for quick tests, but
sometimes I want to take the snippet out for a few days. As it is, I
have to copy it and save it in a new file. Is it possible to just
comment it out somehow so it doesn’t get eval’ed?
Pat
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**Author:**  [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comment-out-rhtml-code/74665/2 "2006-02-28T13:18:35Z")
You can use # to comment out lines of Ruby code.
If you doing it within RHTML:
\<%= #item.unit\_price%\>
causes an error
but
\<%#= item.unit\_price%\>
prevents the unit price of the item being displayed.
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**Author:**  [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comment-out-rhtml-code/74665/3 "2006-02-28T19:28:38Z")
Pat M. wrote:
> I’d like to be able to comment out a few lines of RHTML code easily.
> With HTML you can just surround the code in , but if you
> do that with the RHTML, it still gets executed, then the resulting
> HTML is commented out. Sometimes I’d like to be able to leave the
> code in but not have it evaluated…usually just for quick tests, but
> sometimes I want to take the snippet out for a few days. As it is, I
> have to copy it and save it in a new file. Is it possible to just
> comment it out somehow so it doesn’t get eval’ed?
>
> Pat
Try:
\<%= # this won’t get executed
%\>
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