variable / dynamic content is changing based on <div> -- why? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have some unexpected behavior in a partial, which is rendered 9 times in users/show.html.erb. (Visit www.nowdoing.com/users/2 to see what I mean.) Here is the relevant part of the partial (it's verbose for debugging purposes):
<%= "object 1 = #{object.content}" %>
<div id="float_have" style="display:none;">
<%= "object 2 = #{object.content}" %>
<%= render :partial => 'nowposts/floatpost', :locals => { :object => object.content } %>
</div>
<%= "object 3 = #{object.content}" %>
Have! |
In box #1, :object => "#nowreading book"
In box #2, :object => "#nowlistening song"
Despite this, I'm seeing the following when I load my webpage:
object 1 = "#nowreading book"
object 2 = "#nowreading book"
object 3 = "#nowreading book"
That makes sense for box#1. But the following does NOT make sense for box#2:
object 1 = "#nowlistening song"
object 2 = "#nowreading book" *** this is wrong
object 3 = "#nowlistening song"
Can someone explain to me why including putting the "#{object.content}" within the facebox DIV causes the content to change? I find this behavior very peculiar. Your help is much appreciated!
--- EDIT ---
In users/show.html.erb:
<%= render :partial => 'nowposts/nowpost',
:locals => {:object => #nowreading,
:object_link => #reading_link,
:object_mode => "reading",
:doing_img => #reading_img,
:doing_url => #reading_url_text
} %>
<%= render :partial => 'nowposts/nowpost',
:locals => {:object => #nowlistening,
:object_link => #listening_link,
:object_mode => "listening",
:doing_img => #listening_img,
:doing_url => #listening_url_text
} %>
In nowposts/_nowpost.html.erb:
<div class ="status bl br">
Fresh on <%= object.updated_at.strftime("%b %d, %Y") %><br \>
<% if user_signed_in? %>
<%= "object 1 = #{object.content}" %>
<div id="float_have" style="display:none;">
<%= "object 2 = #{object.content}" %>
<%= render :partial => 'nowposts/floatpost', :locals => { :object => object.content } %>
</div>
<div id="float_wanna" style="display:none;">
<%= "object 3 = #{object.content}" %>
<%= render :partial => 'wishlists/floatpost', :locals => { :object => object.content } %>
</div>
Have! |
Wanna!
<% end %>
</div>
In application.html.erb:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('a[rel*=facebox]').facebox({
loadingImage : '../images/loading.gif',
closeImage : '../images/closelabel.png'
})
})
</script>
The partial nowposts/_floatpoast.html.erb
<h2>Wanna!</h2>
<h3>You wanna do this? Great, put it on your bucket list. </h3>
<%= form_for(:wishlist, :as => #wishlist, :url => {:controller => "wishlists", :action => "create", :user_id => current_user } ) do |f| %>
<p><%= f.label :content %><br />
<%= f.text_field :content, :value => object, :size => "80" %></p>
<p><%= f.submit "Post!" %></p>
<% end %>
As mentioned in my comment below, this code was working in my last commit (a few days ago), before I implemented caching of an API result and these nested routes:
resources :users
resources :nowposts, :only => [:have_create, :create, :new, :show]
end
But I don't think that is the problem. I just ran another test, and object.content only changes when I have it inside this div:
<div id="float_have" style="display:none;">
I tried another random div:
<div id="status">
<%= "object 2 = #{object.content}" %>
</div>
and this displayed correctly. This makes me think that the problem is the Facebox script? But if so, I wonder why it worked a few days ago.
Let me know if you need anything else.

Answer 1

I don't understand your code at all, it is too ambiguous. 'object' is a pretty terrible name for a variable, and content is a really bad name for an attribute. Also, your locals for the partial are rendering here doesn't make much sense ({:object => object.content}????). If you would like help, please try to clarify what this means.
That being said, can you change each debug statement from
<%= "object 1 = #{object.content}" %>
to
<%= "object 1 = #{object.inspect}" %>
<%= "object 1 content = #{object.content.inspect}" %>
and display the results.