Thanks all, just a little surprised that Rails doesn't have a simpilar
way to comment things out in the view.

On Sep 18, 10:57 am, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:50 AM, nobosh wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. I need to avoid HTML comments. Also, I tried
>
> > <%= <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', project, :confirm => 'Are you >
> > sure?', :method => :delete %></td>  %>
>
> > And what happens is every time it runs through the loop it outputs on
> > the page: </td>  %>, meaning the " %> from the TD is being used to
> > close the comment, which is why I'm trying to find out a way to
> > comment this line out
>
> This is evil, but it will work...
>
> <%%q{ <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', project, :confirm => 'Are you >
> sure?', :method => :delete %></td> }%>
>
> The %q{...} turns everything within it into an un-evaluated string.  And the 
> <% without the <%= results in no output.  If you don't even want the blank 
> line change the last %> to -%>
>
> -philip
>
>
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On Sep 18, 10:34 am, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> <% @projects.each do |project| %>
> >>>  <tr>
> >>> .
> >>>    <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', project, :confirm => 'Are you
> >>> sure?', :method => :delete %></td>
> >>> .
> >>>  </tr>
> >>> <% end %>
>
> >>> How can I safely comment out the TD line above? Do I have to use the
> >>> =begin way?
>
> >> If you don't mind HTML comments, just wrap it in <!-- ..... ->
>
> >> If you just want the link gone, but keep the <td> you can make the start 
> >> tag look like <%#= and it should work (if memory serves).
>
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