this bug is similar to something i see already discussed on why''s blogpost comments, which was reported fixed, but that was before the gem was made available (which is what im using since i cant seem to access the C.WTLS SVN) my guess is one of 3 things: fix didnt propagate to gem, my own failure to make an educated guess on proper setup (1), or a genuine bug essentially, for @slice in @toasts render :partial "slice" messing around with :object => slice (or @slice) the best i can get is @slice or slice to be ''nil'' or the html tag <slice />, until finding this workaround: render :partial => slice, :locals => { :slice => slice } which is fine, except its an added step over instance variables automagic..and it seems strange that an attribute called ''locals'' would help get instance variables in as well as just locals, but ive seen stranger things especially when delaing with lots of []s and {}s in TCL... (1) require ''markaby'' require ''markaby/view'' require ''markaby/helper'' ActionView::Base::register_template_handler :mab, Markaby::View ActionController::Base.send :include, Markaby::ActionControllerHelper -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.