Hi everyone, I managed an ugly kludge solution to my problem, but I feel there must be a more elegant way of doing it ... I have a list and I render each element in the list by: ... <%= render_collection_of_partials "list_entry", @cells %> ... and in my _list_entry.rhtml partial I''m trying to render a nested partial form and I need to pass the list_entry accessible object on into that partial ... and because I am using this form partial from other places, the local variable in that partial needs to be ''cell'' ... The ugly way I am currently getting this to work is by: ... <% @cell = list_entry %> <%= start_form_tag :action => ''update'', :id => @cell %> <%= render_partial "form" %> ... it seems i should be able to do something like <%= render(:partial => "form", :cell => list_entry) %> or <%= render(:partial => "form", :locals => {:cell => list_entry}) %> which both seem more elegant to me, but neither works. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance! Ryan