Question

I had a working Rails site which I did not touch for some time. I am now opening it in Rails 3.1.0 and Ruby 1.9.2p290.

I have this syntax in my view:

<%= form_tag ("save", :method=>"get", :id=>"save") do  %>

I now get this Rails error when it process the view:

syntax error, unexpected keyword_ensure, expecting $end):

I have read that I should use this instead, but I am not sure why:

<%= form_tag :action=>"save", :method=>"get", :id=>"save" do  %>

This does render something to the user but it renders a form without an “id” attribute like before; it should be “save“. I found many links suggesting to put the parameters in {...} or do other stuff, but the id is never generated.

Answer 1

Remove the space character after the form_tag to make it:

<%= form_tag("save", :method=>"get", :id=>"save") do  %>