flatiron/plates — Issue #24: No collections?
Author: jesusabdullah
Created: 2012-01-31 01:25:49+00:00
State: open
Labels: medium-priority, needs-investigation

With weld, you can do something like:

```html

John Doe: Salaryman

```

```json
{
"employees": [
{ "name": "Josh", "title": "engineer" },
{ "name": "Paolo", "title": "CTO" }
]
}
```

and have it populate the whole list:

```html

Josh: engineer

Paolo: CTO

```

but it seems that Plates can't do this? For example, check out this gist:

> https://gist.github.com/1707961

When you run this, the list gets stringified and instead of what you *want* to see, you get `[object Object],[object Object]` and such.

It's certainly possible to get around this with multiple applications of plates, as in this gist:

> https://gist.github.com/1708001

but it *feels* wrong.

So, the way I see it, this was either an intentional decision that makes Plates' complexity manageable, or it's a bug, and I'm not sure which.