Rails 3, passing local variable to partial [duplicate]

Answer 1

I've spent several hours on this; in a view, render :partial => ? , :locals => (....} it seems if you first call:

render :partial => ? without a locals hash

and THEN call render :partial => ? with a locals hash the locals hash IS NOT passed to the view.

If the first call includes a locals hash with the same variables set to '' then the second call with REAL values will work.