# \-%\> Error in Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 26, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970 "2006-09-26T00:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/1 "2006-09-26T00:22:10Z")
I frequently use \<% “foobar” -%\> syntax (note the closing -%\>) to prevent extra newlines from being rendered to the page when my template files have logic. This works fine in ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]. But in ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] this causes a “parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND” error. Was the ability to use " -%\>" to prevent extra newlines removed from version 1.8.4 to 1.8.5? Or is this a Linux/Windows issue? Has anyone else run into this? I would just like to know so I can get out of the habbit of using “-%\>” if it is no longer supported. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/2 "2006-09-26T00:42:11Z")
On 9/26/06, Caleb [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Has anyone else run into this? I would just like to know so I can get > out of the habbit of using “-%\>” if it is no longer supported. I use -%\> all the time on Windows. I think I’ve seen this error before though when there are tabs in the .rhtml file. If you convert these to spaces you might have some luck. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/3 "2006-09-26T01:32:15Z")
On 9/26/06, Caleb [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Sure enough, I did a search and replace for tabs and replaced them with > spaces. Is this a difference in the way Linux and Windows encode/read > tab characters? If it isn’t an encoding issue then this seems like a > ruby bug (since it works in one environment and not the other). To be honest, I don’t know if it’s a difference with Linux since I don’t use it. This was something that was pointed out to me, and I havn’t really seen the need to undestand why it can’t use tabs it up to this point. I just set my editor to use spaces instead of tabs and away I go. Sorry I can’t be any more help to understanding why… ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/4 "2006-09-26T01:10:13Z")
Daniel ----- wrote: > I use -%\> all the time on Windows. I think I’ve seen this error before > though when there are tabs in the .rhtml file. > > If you convert these to spaces you might have some luck. Sure enough, I did a search and replace for tabs and replaced them with spaces. Is this a difference in the way Linux and Windows encode/read tab characters? If it isn’t an encoding issue then this seems like a ruby bug (since it works in one environment and not the other). ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/5 "2006-09-26T04:08:21Z")
Caleb wrote: > Sure enough, I did a search and replace for tabs and replaced them with > spaces. Is this a difference in the way Linux and Windows encode/read > tab characters? If it isn’t an encoding issue then this seems like a > ruby bug (since it works in one environment and not the other). Any chance you’re using RMagick or Ferret? These have been known to cause Erb problems on Windows - specifically errors in your .rhtml files claiming that you have invalid characters in your file. I believe RMagick was just updated to fix this problem, but I don’t know about Ferret. Jeff > **[Hey Daddio!](http://softiesonrails.com)** > > Home of Hey Daddio Software ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/6 "2006-09-26T20:39:20Z")
Jeff C. wrote: > Any chance you’re using RMagick or Ferret? These have been known to > cause Erb problems on Windows - specifically errors in your .rhtml > files claiming that you have invalid characters in your file. I > believe RMagick was just updated to fix this problem, but I don’t know > about Ferret. Ya, I’m using the Ferret plugin. I’ll take a look at that. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-windows/69970/7 "2006-09-26T10:01:53Z")
On 9/26/06, Jeff [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > believe RMagick was just updated to fix this problem, but I don’t know > about Ferret. > > Jeff > [softiesonrails.com](http://softiesonrails.com) Unless I’m wrong (and I hope I am) the only fix applied to RMagick was to compile it against Ruby 1.8.4-20 stable. Ferret is already compile against this version so if using either of the two libraries you should be using version 1.8.4-20 of One-Click Ruby. Details of the problem are here; ``` http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3837&group_id=12&atid=133 ``` Cheers, Dave