Problem using Locomotive

Rails
1

Hi,

I’ve installed locomotive and all seemed to be fine. The localhost
works and I can make a new project and generate controllers, views etc.
However as soon as I put some Ruby code in a view html page I get a
Syntax Error. Even just trying to use date won’t work.

Anyone know where I’m going wrong? I’m keen to get coding!

Thanks in advance.

2

Go ahead and paste the contents of your view.html file and also
copy-and-paste the exact error you’re getting. That will help us find
the
problem.

3

hello.rhtml in app/views/say

Hello, Rails!

Hello from Rails

It is now <%/= @time %>.

say_controller.rb in app/controllers

class SayController < ApplicationController
def hello
@time = Time.now
end
end

http://localhost:3000/say/hello

SyntaxError in Say#hello

Showing app/views/say/hello.rhtml where line #1 raised:

compile error
/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
unknown regexp option - p
/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
parse error, unexpected $undefined.
_erbout = ‘’; _erbout.concat "\r \r Hello,
Rails!\r \r \r

Hello from Rails

\r

\r It is now "; /= @time ; _erbout.concat ".\r

\r \r\r"; _erbout 
                                                    ^

/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
unknown regexp options - htl
/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
parse error, unexpected $undefined.
_erbout = ‘’; _erbout.concat "\r \r Hello,
Rails!\r \r \r

Hello from Rails

\r

\r It is now "; /= @time ; _erbout.concat ".\r

\r \r\r"; _erbout 
^

/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
unterminated string meets end of file
/Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…/app/views/say/hello.rhtml:1:
parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND
Extracted source (around line #1):

1:

Hello, Rails!

Hello from Rails

It is now <%/= @time %>.

Trace of template inclusion: /app/views/say/hello.rhtml

RAILS_ROOT: /Users/jim/Documents/work/demo/config/…

4

Thankyou - Any help appreciated. I can’t get past this error.

5

On 11/16/06, cmcfarland [email protected] wrote:

<p>
 It is now <%/= @time %>.

Remove the forward slash in this line. ERb tags are <%= %> (output
rendered)
or <% %> (output not rendered).

Matt

</p>
6

It is now <%/= @time %>

Seems to be a simple typeing error…
See the slash ( / ) you have in front of the " = " ? thats wrong …
the parser seems to see it as ather start of a regular expression
pattern, which are usually ecapsulated in slashes … /pattern/

try:
It is now <%= @time %>