This is interesting. I don't think Rails should acts that way. It should only iterate through the collection only if :collection => is provided.
Can you open the lighthouse ticket for this one? Thanks, Prem On 1 ?.?. 2553, at 1:28, James MacAulay wrote: > This code does not work the same way as it did in 2.x: > > render :partial => "things", :object => ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] > > In 2.x, the "things" partial would be rendered once with a local > variable called "things" storing the given array. > > In 3.0.0 (and edge), the Action View assumes that you really > meant :collection => ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], so it iterates through the > array and renders the partial once with each element. It will do this > for any object which responds to to_ary. > > I really think this is a case of Rails being too clever for its own > good. The difference in behaviour between the :object and :collection > options is large enough that this makes for a big break in > expectations. If someone wants the :collection behaviour, they should > use :collection. > > (FWIW, an easy workaround is to pass the array into :locals, which > people should probably be doing for arrays 99% of the time anyway, but > silently assuming they meant :collection is not the way to encourage > that behaviour.) > > The relevant change to the code is more than a year old now (commit > d0301e1) but I couldn't find any discussion about the change and the > tests don't seem to assert anything about it either way. If it's > really the behaviour we want, then it should be tested and documented. > I can make a patch in either case. > > -James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
