Ryan Bates

thanks, documentation is planned, just wanted to nail down the functionality first.

Also, you could get fancy and yield multiple times for different sections of the layout. For example.

<!-- _comment.html.erb -->
before
<%= yield comment, :ti...

Currently it's possible to pass a block to "render :layout" in the view and yield to it. For example:

<!-- _layout.html.erb -->
before
<%= yield %>
end

<!-- ...

After a little bit of research I found this commit which appears to be when those two lines were added.

As suspected, this was intended to solve a memory leak....

Is it possible the two lines were intended to solve a memory leak? That may explain why it doesn't make a noticeable change in behavior. It's a bit beyond me, b...

It's probably best to fix this for other objects as well.

reflection == Object.new # raises an error

Attached is a patch which ensures the object is a reflec...

Nevermind, found the problem. Attached is an updated patch which also returns nil when nil is passed.

@RSL, as Damian mentioned you can toss it into a helper. Or you can just render a partial right here.

<%= render(:partial => @records) || render(:partial => '...

Correction: you'll need to wrap the render call in parenthesis.

<%= render(:partial => @records) || "Nothing found" %>

@jshumate, sorry for the incorrect assumption. I haven't seen this behavior outside of storing a model globally. Could you post your code or example app somewhe...