Conditional replacements in rhtml

Rails
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I am working on the Agile programming tutorial and trying out some
ruby code. Can someone tell me why the following works:

Display Cart

Your cart currently holds <%= @items.size %> <%= @items.size == 1 ? "item" : "items" %>.

while this does not?

Display Cart

Your cart currently holds <%= @items.size %> <%= if @items.size == 1 then "item" else "items" %>.

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Hi James,

To do this with an if statement:

<%if @items.size == 1 -%>item<% else -%>items<% end -%>

I like this better myself.

<%= @items.size == 1 ? “item” : “items” %>

~ Ben

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Ben R. wrote:

Hi James,

To do this with an if statement:

<%if @items.size == 1 -%>item<% else -%>items<% end -%>

I like this better myself.

<%= @items.size == 1 ? “item” : “items” %>

~ Ben

This is probably more railsy.

Your cart currently holds <%= pluralize(@items.size,"item") %>.

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you forgot the end after else “items”