@foo = @bar = [ ]

That causes foo and bar to refer to the same Object, and essentially be the same. After I did it in my code, I wondered why @foo and @bar yielded the same values when I iterated through them in my view.

It’s because I tricked myself.

@foo = [ ]
@bar = [ ]

That works like I was expecting. Should have remembered that…

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