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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909 "2008-01-23T12:11:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@Thufir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thufir)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909/1 "2008-01-23T12:11:49Z")
I want to drop deprecated code as per:
start\_form\_tag and end\_form\_tag
Use form\_tag with a block.
> **[Ruby on Rails](https://rubyonrails.org)**
>
> A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
However, I’m not sure how to do a block from the rhtml file. Somewhere
I
need curly braces for a block? Or, does it mean an “end” statement?
The
embedded part is throwing me off a bit.
thufir@arrakis ~/strawr $
thufir@arrakis ~/strawr $ cat app/views/feeds/show.rhtml -n | head -n
53
| tail -n 18
36
37 \<% @unused\_tags =
38 Tag.find(:all) - @feed.tags %\>
39
40 \<% if @unused\_tags.any? %\>
41
42 \<%= form\_tag :action =\> “add\_some\_tags”,
43 :id =\> @feed %\>
44 **Add a tag:**
45 \<% @unused\_tags.each {|tag| %\>
46 \<%= check\_box(‘tag’+tag.id.to\_s, ‘checked’) +
47 tag.tag %\>
48 \<% } %\>
49 \<%= submit\_tag %\>
50 \<%= end\_form\_tag %\>
51 \<% end %\>
52
53
thufir@arrakis ~/strawr $
[http://code.google.com/p/strawr/source](http://code.google.com/p/strawr/source)
thanks,
Thufir
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**Author:**  [@Thufir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thufir)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909/2 "2008-01-23T12:38:18Z")
On 23 Jan 2008, at 11:10, Thufir wrote:
> statement? The
> embedded part is throwing me off a bit.
\<% form\_tag :action =\> ‘foo’ do %\>
bla bla bla
\<% end %\>
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**Author:**  [@Thufir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thufir)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909/3 "2008-01-24T10:02:38Z")
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:37:17 +0000, Frederick C. wrote:
> \<% form\_tag :action =\> ‘foo’ do %\>
> bla bla bla
> \<% end %\>
Following this (and trying to follow the API) results in:
SyntaxError in Feeds#show
Showing app/views/feeds/show.rhtml where line #43 raised:
compile error
/home/thufir/strawr/app/views/feeds/show.rhtml:43: syntax error,
unexpected ‘)’
\_erbout.concat " "; \_erbout.concat(( form\_tag :action =\>
“add\_some\_tags”, :id =\> @feed.id do ).to\_s); \_erbout.concat “\n”
^
/home/thufir/strawr/app/views/feeds/show.rhtml:50: syntax error,
unexpected kEND, expecting ‘)’
end ; \_erbout.concat “
\n”
^
/home/thufir/strawr/app/views/feeds/show.rhtml:57: syntax error,
unexpected kEND, expecting ‘)’
Extracted source (around line #43):
40: Tag.find(:all) - @feed.tags %\>
41:
42: \<% if @unused\_tags.any? %\>
43: \<%= form\_tag :action =\> “add\_some\_tags”, :id =\> @feed.id do %\>
44: **Add a tag:**
45: \<% @unused\_tags.each {|tag| %\>
46: \<%= check\_box(‘tag’+tag.id.to\_s, ‘checked’) + tag.tag %\>
If line 44 is syntactically correct (which I think it is, then perhaps
the source of the error message lies in line 46, converting
tag.id.to\_s ,or maybe there’s a missing “end” (but that part looked ok
to
me).
for source code:
[http://code.google.com/p/strawr/source](http://code.google.com/p/strawr/source)
and
[http://strawr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/app/views/feeds/show.rhtml](http://strawr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/app/views/feeds/show.rhtml)
thanks,
Thufir
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**Author:**  [@Thufir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thufir)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909/4 "2008-01-24T11:19:07Z")
On 24 Jan 2008, at 09:01, Thufir wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:37:17 +0000, Frederick C. wrote:
>
> > \<% form\_tag :action =\> ‘foo’ do %\>
> > bla bla bla
> > \<% end %\>
>
> Following this (and trying to follow the API) results in:
Well you haven’t done that. you’ve used \<%=, whereas I used \<%
Fred
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**Author:**  [@Thufir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thufir)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-do-a-block-from-embedded-ruby-rhtml/126909/5 "2008-01-24T16:00:30Z")
I stand corrected!
Thanks 🙂
-Thufir