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chris salvi
7,584 Pointschallenge question on adding if/else erb statement
<div class="status">
<% if user_signed_in? %>
<span class="message">You are signed in.</span>
<% else %>
<span class="message">You are NOT signed in.</span>
</div>
What am I doing wrong here? says that both outputs are being printed despite my if/else statement....
2 Answers
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsWhere's did the
<% end %>
go to?
I got stuck on this once because I was used to CoffeeScript, so you're not the only one.
james white
78,399 PointsThis forum post was NOT helpful!
It only confused me..
I had to go looking on Answer 1 of this stackoverflow thread to get a clue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14335130/if-user-signed-in-puts-some-text-devise
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsMy apologies; it appears as if the forums butchered my Markdown. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that!
chris salvi
7,584 Pointschris salvi
7,584 Pointshumm, weird. So does the <% end %> just signify the end of the ruby code? Cause in the actual project it doesnt appear anywhere close to the if/else statement.
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsRyan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points<% end %>signifies the end of a directive (an
ifor adefor aclasskeyword). They do the exact same thing as closing curly brackets}in JavaScript.