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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies ruby tassoc of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company ruby hash Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting keyword_end up vote 1 down vote favorite Added the convert_options code to existing Paperclip code in my user method. Now getting: /Users/-----/----/-------/app/models/user.rb:148: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting keyword_end :convert_options => { :small => '-quality 40' } What am I missing? User Model: ... # Paperclip has_attached_file :photo, :styles => { :small => ["50x50#", :jpeg], :big => ["450x450#", :jpeg] } :convert_options => { :small => '-quality 40' } validates_attachment_size :photo, :less_than => 5.megabytes validates_attachment_content_type :photo, :content_type => ['image/jpeg', 'image/png'] ... ruby-on-rails syntax paperclip share|improve this question edited Jun 1 '13 at 18:39 Simone Carletti 122k24253297 asked Jun 1 '13 at 18:18 Zander Perry 49110 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote accepted You're missing a comma after your :styles => {...}. share|improve this answer answered Jun 1 '13 at 18:28 RobHeaton 1,0351713 Awesome. Thanks Rob. –Zander Perry Jun 1 '13 at 18:37 Yes. It could help if you line up your symbols in a column. I'll just show an example down in an answer here. –Douglas G. Allen Aug 24 '14 at 19:58 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote has_attached_file :photo, :styles => { :small => ["50x50#", :jpeg], :big => ["450x450#", :jpeg] }, :convert_options => { :small => '-quality 40' } I know that it's a lot of indenting but it helps me when I try to debug some thing. Some editors highlight opening brackets with closing one

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