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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 16, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-in-rhtml-files/129333 "2008-02-16T23:08:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:**  [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-in-rhtml-files/129333/1 "2008-02-16T23:08:36Z")
Hello all,
I have a Partial and at the beginning of it I have Ruby code (\<% …
%\>) in which a have a couple of comments. When the comments (which
starts with #) are in the Partial, my partial is not displayed, when I
remove them my Partial works. Why?
Here is the beginning of the partial :
\<%
# Check if we passed to the partial the User object
user = User.find\_by\_id(session[:userId]) if
local\_assigns[:user].nil?
%\>
\<% form\_id = “myPartial\_form”;
…
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**Author:**  [@martin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/comments-in-rhtml-files/129333/2 "2008-02-18T01:20:44Z")
I believe the problem is that the \<%# sequence is leading ERb to
interpret the entire block as a comment, not simply the one line that
you intend as a comment.
More broadly speaking, it’s a bad idea to be doing ActiveRecord finds
in your views. They should only be fed data (via locals or instance
variables) and render. You might consider using a before\_filter that
creates a @current\_user (for all controllers) by reading in from the
users table and then simply testing for @current\_user.nil?