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Nesting content_tag in Rails 3

Gabe Berke-Williams

Nesting content_tag in Rails 3 is counter-intuitive. This looks like it will work:

content_tag(:ul) do
  collection.map do |item|
    content_tag(:li, item.title)
  end
end

But it doesn’t. You get an empty list:

<ul>
</ul>

What’s the deal? To fix it, use the concat method:

content_tag(:ul) do
  collection.map do |item|
    concat(content_tag(:li, item.title))
  end
end

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