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ruby-on-rails-3jrubysyntax-error
Ashley Bye
Ashley Bye

Reputation: 1750

JRuby unexpected :

I am running JRuby version 1.6.7 with Rails 3.2.3 and when I launch my rails server rails s I get the following error:

/config/routes.rb:8: syntax error, unexpected ':'

  match '/about', to: 'pages#about'

However, if I change to match '/about' :to => 'pages#about' I don't get the error. Since this shorthand format is supported in the version of Rails in use, what is the problem and how do I resolve it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 132

Answers (2)

user229044
user229044

Reputation: 239531

The key: value syntax was introduced by Ruby 1.9 to supersede 1.8's :key => value syntax. The version of Rails is irrelevant; unless your version of Ruby is at least 1.9, you cannot use the new key: value syntax for hashes.

Upvotes: 0

ezkl
ezkl

Reputation: 3861

The hash syntax comes from Ruby implementations, not Rails. JRuby can run in either 1.9 or 1.8 mode. It runs in 1.8 mode by default. You can read about configuring JRuby to run in 1.9 mode on the wiki.

Upvotes: 3

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