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Locals sent to render() from Sinatra should persist through to templates
Not sure what you mean. We pass them in the bldr sinatra helper method here: https://github.com/ajsharp/bldr/blob/master/lib/sinatra/bldr.rb#L26, and they're made instance variable here https://github.com/ajsharp/bldr/blob/master/lib/bldr/node.rb#L25. This means they're accessible inside a template via the locals method.
They are not.
If you pass current_user as a local when rendering a top-level template, that current_user object is not available when you're rendering via template() inside the top-level one.
Oh. I see what you mean. This is a tough one. I think that in most cases, you don't want all variables that you pass in to a parent templates to be available to child templates. This is how rails does this, requiring all scope to be manually set in templates via a locals argument.
But, I think current_user is a special case. Usually how this is dealt with in rails is that it's available higher up the chain -- you designate certain controller methods as helpers that will be available in all of your view templates.
So, I wouldn't want to bleed scope for all locals passed into a parent template to it's children, but we definitely need a mechanism that's akin to what rails allows you to do in order to get ahold of the current user.