Hello Brad, BW> This looks like the correct behavior to me. The HTML comment should BW> have no effect on whether the Ruby code is executed, IMO. It doesn't even know that it is HTML surrounding the ruby code, because even this maybe a false assumption. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's