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Compilation error for mix ecto.migrate

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beedsson

beedsson

Hello everybody,

I’m following guidelines and instructions of the well-known Phoenix book “Programming Phoenix” and as I’m now on page 93 I tried to execute “mix ecto.migrate” after generating the resources.

The command shell outputs this error:

Compiling 13 files (.ex)

    == Compilation error on file web/views/video_view.ex ==
    ** (SyntaxError) web/templates/video/index.html.eex:16: unexpected token: "\" (column 8, codepoint U+005C)
        (eex) lib/eex/compiler.ex:36: EEx.Compiler.generate_buffer/4
        (eex) lib/eex/compiler.ex:43: EEx.Compiler.generate_buffer/4
        (phoenix) lib/phoenix/template.ex:378: Phoenix.Template.compile/2
        (phoenix) lib/phoenix/template.ex:186: Phoenix.Template."-MACRO-__before_compile__/2-fun-0-"/3
        (elixir) lib/enum.ex:1755: Enum."-reduce/3-lists^foldl/2-0-"/3
        (phoenix) expanding macro: Phoenix.Template.__before_compile__/1
        web/views/video_view.ex:1: Rumbl.VideoView (module)
        (elixir) lib/kernel/parallel_compiler.ex:117: anonymous fn/4 in Kernel.ParallelCompiler.spawn_compilers/1

I updated the router with the new resources before that.

I hope this is informative. Of course I can provide further details if needed.

Can you detect what kind of problem this is?

Thank you

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kokolegorille

kokolegorille

There is video.\ that causes the error

The block should be

        <td><%= video.user_id %></td>
        <td><%= video.url %></td>
        <td><%= video.title %></td>
        <td><%= video.description %></td>
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NobbZ

NobbZ

@kokolegorille where do you read line 8? I read line 16, coloumn 8…

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ericmj

ericmj

Elixir Core Team

It would help if you include the code you get the compilation error on.

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NobbZ

NobbZ

please show us the content of web/templates/video/index.html.eex

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kokolegorille

kokolegorille

You are welcome :slight_smile:

Please note that if your issue is fixed, You can mark the topic as closed

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