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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

This is probably more of a Ruby question than a Rails question. I''ve always wondered exactly how controller instance 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