Can I now use a symbol to access the assigns hash?

I am reading an ancient(but good) tutorial on Test::Unit It states that you can not use a symbol to access items in the assigns hash and must use a string identifier. I would think that would have been fixed at this point.

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/28

Thanks in advance

I am reading an ancient(but good) tutorial on Test::Unit It states that you can not use a symbol to access items in the assigns hash and must use a string identifier. I would think that would have been fixed at this point.

Peak Obsession

Should be a pretty easy experiment to verify this. Personally I
wouldn't consider this a bug. Strings and symbols are generally not
interchangeable (only the params hash maintains that illusion - see has_many :through - Symbols are not pretty strings   for some of the reasons behind this)

Fred