I''m getting this weird partial problem. I''m calling the partial like so: <%= render :partial => partial, :locals => {:message => message, :display => display, :indent => indent, :button_type => button, :terms => params[:search_terms]} %> The object in message can be printed out first, and then within the partial I can access it, and it returns false to message.nil? but when I try to access elements like message.title from within the partial template itself I get errors like this: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.title Any ideas? Many thanks in advance. CHEERS> SAM