What's wrong ... syntax error ... unexpected identifer

Rails
1

got this error [rails 2.3.2, Ruby 1.8.7]

syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND
… if n.send(order_attribute) > self.send(order_attribute)

idoesn’t like the ‘>’ … what’s wrong ?

here is my action…

  def move_to_ordered_child_of(parent, order_attribute,

ascending=true)
if parent
left = nil
parent.children.each do |n|
if ascending
left = n if n.send(order_attribute) < self.send
(order_attribute)
else
left = n if n.send(order_attribute) > self.send
(order_attribute)
end
end
self.move_to_child_of(parent)
if left
self.move_to_right_of(left)
elsif parent.children.count > 1
self.move_to_left_of(parent.children[0])
end
else
self.move_to_root
end
end

2 
 def move_to_ordered_child_of(parent, order_attribute,

ascending=true)
if parent
left = nil
parent.children.each do |n|
if ascending
left = n if n.send(order_attribute) < self.send
(order_attribute)

Try…

left = n if ( n.send(order_attribute) < self.send )

3

2009/6/19 Erwin [email protected]:

       else
     else
      self.move_to_root
     end
    end

It does not give me a syntax error. Try putting it as near the start
of the file as possible in case the error is actually earlier in the
file but not picked up till here, though not sure what that could be.
Colin

4

2009/6/19 Philip H. [email protected]:

here is my action…
Try…

left = n if ( n.send(order_attribute) < self.send )

It is not that line that is blowing up, it is the one below with ‘>’
Colin

5

On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Colin L. wrote:

(order_attribute)

Try…

left = n if ( n.send(order_attribute) < self.send )

It is not that line that is blowing up, it is the one below with ‘>’

Heh. Good point. Same thing would apply below though… Assuming
like someone else said that it is this piece of code and not some
other “>” somewhere…