HOW TO ERB FILES SYNTAX ERROR USING "rails-erb-lint" GEm

rails-erb-lint

Installations:

$ gem install rails-erb-lint

Usage:

 

$cd your-rails-app/app/views

$rails-erb-lint check

It will check syntax of all .html.erb files and displays all invalid files....

Customize rails-erb-lint to display line numbers of syntax error for invalid files...

$gem which rails-erb-lint

#It will display path of rails-erb-lint gem

/home/saritha/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/rails-erb-lint-1.0.8/lib/rails-erb-lint.rb

then, Open rails-erb-lint.rb in editor...

replace your module with below code......

rails-erb-lint.rb

module RailsErbCheck

  def self.valid_syntax?(erb)

    begin

      ActionView::Template::Handlers::Erubis.new(erb).result

    rescue SyntaxError => error

      puts "Error Occured In Line:#{error.inspect.split('syntax error')[0]}"

      return false

    rescue Exception

      return true

    end

  end

end

Now check your views...

$rails-erb-lint check

# Displays invalid files and line numbers as shown below:

Error Occured In Line:#<SyntaxError: (erubis:27: 

/home/saritha/ror/movierainbow/app/views/social/profiles/addfriends.html.erb => invalid

Error Occured In Line:#<SyntaxError: (erubis:9: 

/home/saritha/ror/movierainbow/app/views/social/profiles/friends.html.erb => invalid

"95 files, 2 invalid files"

saritha@sartitha-pc:~/ror/movierainbow/app/views$ rails-erb-lint check

Checking for files in current directory: /home/saritha/ror/movierainbow/app/views

"95 files, 0 invalid files"

Thank You.................Happy Rails Coding...........:-)