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Hi, It''s a little bit annoying to me, I can''t understand the following: If I merge a value to the params hash with: params => params.merge :value => new_value the params[:value] doesn''t change, but if I use string instead of a symbol like: params => params.merge "value" => new_value it works. Somebody plz tell me why... Abbath

Sorry, but this is really NOT as easy as the tutorials/books make out. I''m really struggling at the first hurdle here. And while I''m not a programmer by design I do know my way around most stuff. And if I can''t get this to work I suspect more people will have the same issues. There seems to be too many variables to address. I have winXP, I have ruby and rails all