rails/rails — pull request #5082 by willbryant (2012-02-18 10:50:36+00:00)
Title: assigns(:foo) should not convert @foo's keys to strings if it happens to be a hash

This is an unintended side effect of the code to make assigns(:foo) work the same way as assigns('foo').

This pull request is relative to master, but the same bug and fix apply to all 3.x versions -
3.2: https://github.com/willbryant/rails/tree/assigns_should_not_stringify_values_3-2-stable
3.1: https://github.com/willbryant/rails/tree/assigns_should_not_stringify_values_3-1-stable
3.0: https://github.com/willbryant/rails/tree/assigns_should_not_stringify_values