Question

I’m using the latest edition (3?) of the Pragmatic Ruby book to help me learn Ruby, and just did a tutorial about sending emails. I ran the tests that I just constructed and am seeing some errors. I’m trying to debug them without simply re-doing all the code I just did. Unfortunately, I’m not good enough at understanding the Rails setup to understand what these errors mean and what I should look for:

  1) Error:
test_order_received(NotifierTest):
ActionView::Template::Error: /PATH_BASE/agileRails/depot/app/views/notifier/order_received.text.erb:1: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting keyword_end
..._buffer.safe_concat('Dear '); = @order.name ;@output_buffer....
...                               ^
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/template.rb:258:in `module_eval'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/template.rb:258:in `compile'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/template.rb:134:in `block in render'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:54:in `instrument'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/template.rb:127:in `render'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:59:in `block in _render_template'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/notifications.rb:54:in `instrument'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:56:in `_render_template'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:26:in `render'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:115:in `_render_template'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:109:in `render_to_body'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:102:in `render_to_string'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:93:in `render'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/deprecated_api.rb:111:in `render'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:735:in `block in collect_responses_and_parts_order'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:750:in `each'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:750:in `block in each_template'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:745:in `each'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:745:in `each_template'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:731:in `collect_responses_and_parts_order'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:673:in `mail'
    /PATH_BASE/Dropbox/Development/instruction/agileRails/depot/app/mailers/notifier.rb:12:in `order_received'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:150:in `process_action'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:119:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:41:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/old_api.rb:75:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:471:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:466:in `initialize'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `new'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `method_missing'
    test/functional/notifier_test.rb:5:in `block in <class:NotifierTest>'

  2) Error:
test_order_shipped(NotifierTest):
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
    /PATH_BASE/agileRails/depot/app/mailers/notifier.rb:20:in `order_shipped'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:150:in `process_action'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:119:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/rendering.rb:41:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/old_api.rb:75:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:471:in `process'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:466:in `initialize'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `new'
    /PATH_BASE/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/actionmailer-3.0.9/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:450:in `method_missing'
    test/functional/notifier_test.rb:13:in `block in <class:NotifierTest>'

UPDATED to add the code for order_received.text.erb

Dear <% = @order.name %>

Thank you for your recent order from The Pragmatic Store.

You ordered the following items:
<%= render @order.line_items %>

We'll send you a separate e-mail when your order ships.

Answer 1

The important lines are these:

syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting keyword_end
..._buffer.safe_concat('Dear '); = @order.name ;@output_buffer....
...                               ^

That semicolon before the = shouldn’t be there, or perhaps the = itself shouldn’t be there 🙂

Edit: here’s the problem:

<% = @order.name %>

should be

<%= @order.name %>