Had the same problem! Thanks for reporting! On Sep 30, 1:28 pm, James MacAulay <[email protected]> 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
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