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zkidd
zkidd

Reputation: 513

Debugging RoR Syntax Error

I am going through a tutorial and just came up with this error statement when trying to add a user to my db. I'm trying to figure out how to properly read these error statements. For instance I see that the output says syntax error, unexpected tASSOC. expecting keyword_end. So to try to fix that before posting here, I commented out the line in my user.rb file (the one the statement is pointing too). But that did not work. I also put in an extra "end" since the terminal output said "expecting keyword_end."

Here is the exact terminal output:

   SyntaxError: /Users/zkidd/Sites/rails_projects/sample_app/app/models/user.rb:19: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting keyword_end
            :length => { :maximum => 50 }
                      ^
/Users/zkidd/Sites/rails_projects/sample_app/app/models/user.rb:23: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting $end
            :format => { :with => email_regex },
                      ^
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:454:in `load'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:454:in `block in load_file'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:591:in `new_constants_in'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in `load_file'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:340:in `require_or_load'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:491:in `load_missing_constant'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:183:in `block in const_missing'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:181:in `each'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/activesupport-3.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:181:in `const_missing'
 from (irb):6
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:44:in `start'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
 from /Users/zkidd/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/railties-3.0.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
 from script/rails:6:in `require'
 from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

And here is my user.rb file:

    class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :email

  email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

  validates :name, :presence => true
            :length => { :maximum => 50 }

  validates :email, :presence => true
            :format => { :with => email_regex },
            :uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false }
end

Any guidance would be appreciated, as I really don't want to rebuild this thing from the beginning :-)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3687

Answers (2)

Pan Thomakos
Pan Thomakos

Reputation: 34350

You are missing a comma after the :presence => true parameters:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :email

  email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

  validates :name, :presence => true,
            :length => { :maximum => 50 }

  validates :email, :presense => true,
            :format => { :with => email_regex },
            :uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false }
end

Upvotes: 5

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 15736

You have some missing commas on the 2 lines preceding the syntax errors.

Upvotes: 0

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