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    <p>I'm trying to use a <code>link_to</code> block in Rails 2.3.14 with Ruby 1.9.3, and it's causing <code>ActionView::TemplateError syntax error, unexpected keyword_do_block</code></p> <p><strong>HTML</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;% @contents.each do |item| %&gt; &lt;%= link_to "#" do %&gt; # this is the line referenced in the error message &lt;%= content_tag(:h3, item.title) %&gt; &lt;div class="details"&gt; # divs with text &lt;/div&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Detailed error message</strong></p> <p>The lines of code included in the error message do not perfectly match the code included above, which I simplified for debugging, but you can see that the line referenced is the same.</p> <pre><code>ActionView::TemplateError (/my/file/_partial.html.erb:78: syntax error, unexpected keyword_do_block ...;@output_buffer.safe_concat((do).to_s);@output_buffer.safe_c... ... ^ /my/file/_partial.html.erb:97: syntax error, unexpected keyword_else, expecting keyword_end '); else ^ /my/file/_partial.html.erb:123: syntax error, unexpected keyword_ensure, expecting $end) on line #78 of app/views/content/_list.html.erb: 75: &lt;%= hoverhide_image(item) %&gt; 76: &lt;/div&gt; 77: &lt;div class="hovershow"&gt; 78: &lt;%= link_to("#") do %&gt; 79: &lt;%= content_tag(:h3, item.title) %&gt; 80: &lt;div class="details"&gt; 81: &lt;div&gt; </code></pre> <p>If I replace the <code>link_to</code> block with <code>a</code> tags, it renders perfectly. </p> <p>If I remove the <code>=</code> from line 3 (making it <code>&lt;% link_to "#" do %&gt;</code> instead), no error is thrown, but of course my text doesn't render.</p> <p>Any idea what's going on?</p> <p>(edited to add more details on the error message)</p>
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    1. COwhat is the error message generated?
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    2. CO@ArupRakshit: `link_to` can be written with block.
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    3. COWhich is the exact line of the error (the one showed by the exception)? The code you posted is fine.
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