Pass the view object as parameter to the handler. Useful if you need to access the lookup context or other information when compiling the template.

actionpack/lib/action_view/template.rb

@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ module ActionView
           end
         end
 
-        code = @handler.call(self)
+        arity = @handler.respond_to?(:arity) ? @handler.arity : @handler.method(:call).arity
+        code  = arity == 1 ? @handler.call(self) : @handler.call(self, view)
 
         # Make sure that the resulting String to be evalled is in the
         # encoding of the code

actionpack/test/template/render_test.rb

@@ -221,6 +221,15 @@ module RenderTestCases
       "@output_buffer << 'source: #{template.source.inspect}'\n"
   end
 
+  WithViewHandler = lambda do |template, view|
+    %'"#{template.class} #{view.class}"'
+  end
+
+  def test_render_inline_with_template_handler_with_view
+    ActionView::Template.register_template_handler :with_view, WithViewHandler
+    assert_equal 'ActionView::Template ActionView::Base', @view.render(:inline => "Hello, World!", :type => :with_view)
+  end
+
   def test_render_inline_with_compilable_custom_type
     ActionView::Template.register_template_handler :foo, CustomHandler
     assert_equal 'source: "Hello, World!"', @view.render(:inline => "Hello, World!", :type => :foo)