Rails: confused about syntax for passing locals to partials

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The short answer is the render method looks at the first argument you pass in. If you pass in a hash (which includes :partial => 'foo', :locals => {blah blah blah}) then it will pass in all of your arguments as a hash and parse them accordingly.

If you pass in a string as your first argument, it assumes the first argument is your partial name, and will pass the remainder as your locals. However, in that subsequent call, it actually assigns :locals => your_locals_argument, which in this case is the entire :locals => {locals hash}, instead of just {locals hash}; i.e. you end up with :locals => {:locals => {locals hash}}, rather than :locals => {locals hash}.

So my advice is just to always explicitly pass values the same way all the time, and you won’t have problems. In order to learn about this, I went directly to the code itself (actionpack/lib/base.rb, render() method in Rails 2; Rails 3 is different). It’s a good exercise.

Furthermore, don’t worry about “bothering” people on SO. That’s why this site exists. I even learned something from this.

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