Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, and headers fro…

…m the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1307 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

actionpack/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, and headers from the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller
+
 * Added support for POST data in form of YAML or XML, which is controller through the X-POST_DATA_MARSHAL header. Example request:
 
     X-POST_DATA_MARSHAL: xml

actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb

@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ class Base
     attr_reader   :first_render
     attr_accessor :base_path, :assigns, :template_extension
     attr_accessor :controller
+
+    attr_reader :logger, :params, :response, :session, :headers
 
     # Turn on to cache the reading of templates from the file system. Doing so means that you have to restart the server
     # when changing templates, but that rendering will be faster.

actionpack/test/controller/render_test.rb

@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ def hello_in_a_string
     @customers = [ Customer.new("david"), Customer.new("mary") ]
     render_text "How's there? #{render_to_string("test/list")}"
   end
+
+  def accessing_params_in_template
+    render_template "Hello: <%= params[:name] %>"
+  end
 
   def rescue_action(e) raise end
 
@@ -200,6 +204,12 @@ def test_nested_rendering
     assert_equal "Living in a nested world", Fun::GamesController.process(@request, @response).body
   end
 
+  def test_accessing_params_in_template
+    @request.action = "accessing_params_in_template"
+    @request.query_parameters[:name] = "David"
+    assert_equal "Hello: David", process_request.body
+  end
+
   private
     def process_request
       TestController.process(@request, @response)