The form_for shortcut in TextMate puts in the following:
<% form_for @model do |f| -%>
<% end -%>
What does the minus sign do here?
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The minus sign is for removing blank line inside the rendered code.
Anyway from Rails 3 the minus is useless, because it automatically removes the blank lines.