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Posted by Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Keyword Ensure Error with HAML File

I'm following a tutorial and using a HAML file extension for the index file. Whenever I try to preview my app, I get the following error message:

#{hamlout.adjust... ^ /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml:4: syntax error, unexpected ')' ));}

**\n

{_hamlout.adj... ^ /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml:5: unknown regexp option - p /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml:5: syntax error, unexpected $undefined ));}**

\n\n", -1, false);::Haml... ^ /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml:5: unterminated regexp meets end of file /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml:5: syntax error, unexpected end-of-input, expecting keyword_end

The file this error is talking about is the index.html.haml file which contains this TINY bit of coding:

  = @jobs.each do |job|
  %h2= link_to job.title, job
  %p= job.company

What on Earth am I doing wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks so much in advance!

Sincerely,

Todd

6 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Is your indentation correct? In HAML proper indentation is everything.

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points
Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Hi Maciej

To the best of my knowledge, the indentation is okay. I tinkered with the indentation all of last night, and still got the same error.

Not sure if it makes any difference (It probably doesn't), but I am doing this coding in Cloud 9, as opposed to the local server. Maybe this has something to do with it???

Thanks so much for reaching out!

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points
Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

I just changed the indentation again, but now I get a new error:

Showing /home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views/jobs/index.html.haml where line #2 raised:

undefined method each for nil:NilClass

Not sure what this means, but any help would be awesome!!

-T

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This suggests that the @jobs variable was not set for some reason when the view got generated.

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points
Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

I removed the HAML (I was using version Alpha 2), bundle installed, took down the server and then put it up again. Re-added an older version of HAML (4.0.6) and bundle installed and now I get this error:

Missing template jobs/index, application/index with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views"

Sheesh.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Are you using the haml-rails gem? https://rubygems.org/gems/haml-rails

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Yes, but I don't know where you got those gems from! I'm using THESE Haml-rails gems: https://rubygems.org/gems/haml

I went from Alpha to 4.0.6 to beta 1. None of these worked.

Why are we using different Haml gems than me???

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I always used the haml-rails gem because I assumed it will work better with Rails. Pure haml gem seems to be more general. Please try using the rails-haml instead of haml gem:

gem 'haml-rails', '~> 0.6.0'

and see if that helps. If not, you can show me your whole project (preferably Github) and maybe I will find what's wrong with it.

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points
Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Hi Maciej,

Appreciate your help. Unfortunately, I just tried it out and I still get the same error:

Missing template jobs/index, application/index with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views"

Will post to Github and reply back to this thread in a little while. Thanks for following this!

Sincerely,

Todd