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Asked: 2026-06-16T15:49:43+00:00

It appears that when I call a helper method from one of my views,

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It appears that when I call a helper method from one of my views, I am unable to set any new local variables. Name doesn’t matter – everything I set is nil.

From most views, everything is fine:

editable = true
html << 'Editable: ' + editable.to_s

Outputs Editable: true

However, from one of my partials, the output is Editable: indicating nil.

I’m attempting to isolate what is different about this particular view file – posting swaths of files won’t help anyone.

With this information (I know it’s not a lot), can anyone tell me why I might not be able to set local variables in a helper method?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This was a ‘stupid mistake’ on my part but I can’t entirely blame myself. Rails behaved very oddly.

    editable = true came just after this line in my code:

    target_str == '#overview' ? target_str = '#section' : #nothing

    It’s weird, I know. I was getting errors without the :. I’ve changed the line to this

    target_str = '#section' if target_str == '#overview'

    It should do the same thing IMO, but of course doesn’t. Despite being a 1 line if, it was including the next statement which was editable = true. This explains why it was only happening for 1 of my views as well – the only one where the statement evaluated as true.

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