# Help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/94648>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 7, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/94648 "2006-01-07T07:14:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/94648/1 "2006-01-07T07:14:21Z")

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I am at a lost with error below:

Extracted source (around line #15):

12:

**Category:**  
  
13:  
14:   
15: \<% @categories.each do |category| %\>  
16: \<option value="\<%= category.id %\>"  
17: \<%= ‘selected’ if category.id == @product.category\_id %\>\>  
18: \<%= category.name %\>

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**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/94648/2 "2006-01-07T07:17:02Z")

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Patrick L. wrote:

> I am at a lost with error below:
> 
> Extracted source (around line #15):
> 
> 12:
> 
> **Category:**  
>   
> 13:  
> 14:   
> 15: \<% @categories.each do |category| %\>  
> 16: \<option value="\<%= category.id %\>"  
> 17: \<%= ‘selected’ if category.id == @product.category\_id %\>\>  
> 18: \<%= category.name %\>

A \<% end \> does close the do block at some point, right?

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**Author:** ![lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c77e96/32.png) [@lynchnco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lynchnco)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 10:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help/94648/3 "2006-01-07T10:50:26Z")

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Could be wrong but this looks like clientside code and there should  
probably be some dynamics in there.

----- Original Message -----  
From: Patrick L.  
To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 7:14 AM  
Subject: [Rails] help

I am at a lost with error below:

Extracted source (around line #15):

12:

**Category:**  
  
13:  
14:   
15: \<% @categories.each do |category| %\>  
16: \<option value=“\<%= category.id %\>”  
17: \<%= ‘selected’ if category.id == @product.category\_id %\>\>  
18: \<%= category.name %\>

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