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liver
liver

Reputation: 498

Rails Tutorial 7.4.3 SyntaxError in UsersController#show

I'm doing the Michael Hartl tutorial and I made it to 7.4.3 The first signup. Then, when I try to signup, I receive an error:

C:/Sites/sample_app/app/views/users/show.html.erb:1: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')' ...putBuffer.new; provide (:title, @user.name) ... 

^ C:/Sites/sample_app/app/views/users/show.html.erb:1: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting keyword_end ...w; provide (:title, @user.name) ... ^

Here is my show.html.erb:

<% provide (:title, @user.name) %>
<div class="row">
    <aside class="col-md-4">
        <section class="user_info">
            <h1>
                <%= gravatar_for @user %>
                <%= @user.name %>
            </h1>
        </section>
    </aside>
</div>

The page I get:

SyntaxError in UsersController#show

If I put in the integration test in 7.4.4 and do rake: Rake

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 113

Answers (2)

rii
rii

Reputation: 1648

AS the error says, you have a syntax error... the error is the space between provides and the parentheses, try this instead:

<% provide(:title, @user.name) %>

Upvotes: 1

mkralla11
mkralla11

Reputation: 1299

Here is a little more explanation for why you are getting a syntax error:

in ruby, parentheses are not required around method calls, but when you do choose to include them, the beginning parenthesis must have no space between itself and the method name, just like java, C, C++, and many other languages.

provide :title, @user.name
# is the same method call as:
provide(:title, @user.name)

Upvotes: 2

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