James B. Byrne

Am I to understand then that if one uses BDD and develops a view requiring use of the string 'number' without previously providing a translation for it then the...

Important condition:

This error only occurs if there is no entry in the translation file. If 'number' is not a key in config/locales/default/en.yml then the err...

In ActionView html.erb templates

I18n.t( 'number' ).strip raises

undefined method strip' for #<Hash:0x2b946fb1ddc8>

As does:

I18n.t( "number" ).strip

And:

I18n....

Reordering the resources did resolve the problem.

I generated a new rails-3.0.3 project and added the suspect routes only. The problem is instantly reproducible:

$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rail...

Then is there a case for the render method to return a specific ArgumentError message in the event it receives a symbol rather than a string as the value for th...

I think that that appraisal rather misses the point. The issue is one of 'least surprise'. Is there a strong technical reason why symbols should not be allowed ...

render :template => 'index' Works

render :template => :index does not and gives this error:

  private method `sub!' called for :index:Symbol (NoMethodError)

S...

I should point out that this behaviour is exhibited after I did the following simplifications:

1. The entire route.rb file looks like this:

Proforma::Applicatio...

I have done a little more investigation and I do not think that I can get things much simpler than this:

Routes as given above.

3.0.3 behaviour ( same as 3.0.2 ...