Weird rendering of .html.erb file - ruby-on-rails-3

So I have this file:
<h1>Calendar view</h1>
<div class="events">
<% #events.each do |e| %>
<%= raw(e.content)%>
<% end %>
</div>
<br />
<div class="messages">
<% #messages.each do |m| %>
<%= raw(m.content)%>
<% end %>
</div>
With #events and #messages being valid instance variables in the controller...but when I go to the page the html looks like this:
<h1>Calendar view</h1>
<div class="events">
<br>
<div class="messages">
This is another message test
</div
Event Content
</div>
I'm confused. Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

The problem is that raw() will output raw HTML content. The Rails template engine will try to merge that with the .erb template you supplied.
Therefore, if either m.content or e.content are malformed, you will most likely get unexpected output.
The best way would be to look for syntax errors, especially missing closing elements.

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I add:
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Is that what you are looking for?

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Am testing the content_for in my rails 3.2 app and following the rails guides but they are specific to the actual files and I cannot seem to get the yield to work:
application.html.erb file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
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I created a layout file _main_nav.html.erb (i know I can render with <%= render 'layouts/header' %> but I am trying to use the content_for instead) The _main_nav.html.erb is:
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this should work. But it does not. I do not get an error. Seems simple but I am stumped.
When I go to my index.html.erb file I would expect to see this result:
Home
I believe what you want to have is have a view that will contain your content_for block. So an example would be if you have the following:
index.html.erb
<% content_for :head do %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'users' %>
#Above this will load the users stylesheet
<% end %>
<h2>Example</h2>
<ul>
<% #users.each do |users| %>
<li><%= user.name %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
Then to output what inside the users stylesheet we can yield and pass in the symbol of the name of the content_for.
Application.html.erb
<!-DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<%= yield :head%>
<title>This is my title</title
</head>
<body>
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<%= yield %>
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So to review whats happening here is that, in my example I am saying I have a users stylesheet that I would like to load into the <head></head> of my application.html.erb. To do this I set the content_for which is a Rails helper and give it the identifier sysmbol which is head which is then called in the application.html.erb where I do yeild :head. So what I am getting my application to do is when the my index.html.erb for that page is being rendered the application.html.erb will load my users stylesheet. Hope this clears things up for you.
Update explanation
To add to this another thing the purpose of combination of using content_for with yield is to allow you to inject data into the application layout from ANY view. So as another example. You could have the following:
<% content_for :title do %> My Title<% end %>
Here when the controller renders the view template and combines it with the application layout, the text My title will be replaced. The yield(:head) makes it easy to add more elements to the specific page if needed. Take a look at the following example:
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
<% if content_for?(:navbar) %>
<%= yield(:navbar) %>
<% else %>
<%# default navbar %>
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<% end %>
app/views/blah/index.html.erb
<% content_for(:navbar) do %>
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And a further note not sure how your developing your application or what design framework your using but you could also take a look at Rails-Bootstrap-Navbar. May also be an alternative.
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<% content_for :navigation do %>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
</ul>
<% end %>
should be at the top of the file that is loading. Your _header.html.erb is a partial. If you move this code into views/tasks/new.html.erb then it works as expected.
However, for it to work as you want, then you need to adjust your application.html.erb file:
<p>this is where we should see the "Home" link appear that is defined in _header.html.erb:</p>
<section class="header">
<% render 'layouts/header' %>
<%= yield :navigation %>
</section>
Notice, that I have called the render erb tag without the = sign. This means I don't see the contents of the header partial, but it does load. If you include the = sign then it still works but also renders any other content you may have in the partial.
Note: The render tag has to be above/before the yield tag.

Articles appear too many times

I started using Ruby on Rails a few days ago, and I have a problem with the each do loops.
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def index
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<%= yield %>
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<div id="pic">
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RoR: how can I paginate all of my users microposts all in one place?

I want the home page to show everyones microposts, but I keep getting errors. I feel like this might be because the microposts have a belong_to has_many relationship with users. But anyways, This is the code for the home page..
<section>
<%= render 'shared/user_info' %>
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</section>
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I am trying to DRY up some of my HTML in my application currently I have a block of HTML that will get re-used multiple times
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<div class="bheadr"></div>
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