Thanks Walter! That did the trick!
Do you have a link where I can read about the differences between <
%= ... , <%-... and <% ? I haven't spotted that in the "Agile Web
Development with Rails" book I'm reading.
Barney
On Jul 25, 7:25 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Barney wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > When printing the data from a database table to an html table in
> > index.html.erb, there is a strange output in which the entire table is
> > printed sequentially and unformatted, followed by the actual formatted
> > data. The formatted data is correct, along with its headers and some
> > links.
> > After the html headers are printed in a table row:
>
> > <table>
> > <tr>
> > <th>First name</th>
> > ...
> > then the table data is printed:
>
> > <%= @people.each do |person| %>
> > <tr>
> > <td><%= person.first_name %></td>
> > <td><%= person.middle_name %></td>
> > ...
> > and by the process of elimination, the offending line is <%=
> > @people.each do |person| %> as the table data dump occurs even when it
>
> That should be <% @people.each do |person| %>
>
> Or even better, <%- @people.each do |person| -%> which will not add an
> empty line to your output HTML.
>
> Walter
>
> > is alone (except for the following <% end %>). But, of course, I can't
> > do without it or I wouldn't get all of the table data.
> > How do I fix that line, or what is the replacement which still
> > iterates through the table?
> > Thanks,
> > Barney
>
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