Are instance variables in cells overridden ? about cells HOT 5 CLOSED

It seems to me that the variables in the controller should not be visible at all inside the cells. Isn't that better encapsulation? I.e. if it isn't passed as an option to the cell, then it isn't visible. I've actually been burned by this in the past where I had cells silently depending on variables set in the controller.

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this is NOT the intended behaviour, but a serious bug! the cell view should never know anything about controller variables. guess the problem is inside ActionView::Base where controller variables are prefered in place of the passed local vars. damn- gotta fix that.
thanks for spotting

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fixed in bf49226
please report if that works for you!

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I'm sorry for the late reply, but I tested the source
and I confirmed that it works as expected for me.
Thank you.

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thank you, kinokuni.

one thing we have to take into account is that controller ivars with no same-named cell ivar will still be accessible in the cell view, since an unspecified set of controller ivars have to be around in the view, for helpers, so we have to copy them. sucks, but i don't see any way around that if we want to stay forward-compatible.

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