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    copied!<p>If I have a model named Client and controller that looks like this</p> <pre><code>class ClientController &lt; ApplicationController def new @client = Client.new @client.name = "New Guy" end end </code></pre> <p>and I am using HAML, what will my view need to look like to render a form based on this.</p> <p>I have this</p> <pre><code>%p= @client.name -form_for :client, @client do |c| c.label :c.name c.text_field :c.name </code></pre> <p>but my html ends up looking like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;New Guy&lt;/p&gt; &lt;form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/client/new" method="post"&gt;&lt;div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"&gt;&lt;input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&amp;#x2713;" /&gt;&lt;input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="orGtE1V05QIaye5kSsAi5SBdEAV0AJX9uZYUzHw5P64=" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; c.label :c.name c.text_field :c.name &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Thanks for the answers. when I change the view to </p> <pre><code>%p= @client.name -form_for :client, @client do |c| = c.label :c.name = c.text_field :c.name </code></pre> <p>I get the following error</p> <pre><code>undefined method `name' for :c:Symbol Extracted source (around line #3): 1: %p= @client.name 2: -form_for :client, @client do |c| 3: = c.label :c.name 4: = c.text_field :c.name </code></pre> <p>If I comment out lines 2,3, and 4 The name prints out fine. What am I missing?</p> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong></p> <p>If I change the view to </p> <pre><code>%p= @client.name -form_for :client, @client do |c| c.label :name c.text_field :name </code></pre> <p>no more error. Thanks.</p>
 

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