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Hi. I wonder if it is possible to use more complex data structures in templates than simple variables and arrays? I have been trying nested arrays, as well as nested arrays and hashes, but nothing seems to work (more specifically, nested arrays seem to be flattened into a single array). Having only simple variables and arrays is a little limiting. Something like the Perl-based Template Toolkit

...variables are being made accessible to the ERb code in the views. In the Agile Rails book on pages 38, there''s a sidebar at the top that hints at what''s going on: "Rails does some Ruby magic so that the instance variables of the controller object are injected into the tmeplate object". and then on the next page, this sentence appears as part of the "story so far": 5. Rails processes this template through ERb... substituting in values set up by the controller. I''m really interested in learning what Ruby language features made this cool stu...