Merge pull request #111 from terrancesnyder/Issue#110

Pull request for #110

@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ describe('Functional', function() {
         expect(el.getElementsByTagName('li').length).toBe(2);
       });
 
+      it('should not fail if the collection being bound to is null', function() {
+        data.set({ items: null});
+        rivets.bind(el, bindData);
+        expect(el.getElementsByTagName('li').length).toBe(0);
+      });
+
       it('should re-loop over the collection and create new instances when the array changes', function() {
         rivets.bind(el, bindData);
         expect(el.getElementsByTagName('li').length).toBe(2);
@@ -162,6 +168,7 @@ describe('Functional', function() {
         expect(el.getElementsByTagName('li')[2]).toHaveTheTextContent('b');
         expect(el.getElementsByTagName('li')[3]).toHaveTheTextContent('last');
       })
+
     });
   });
 

@@ -339,17 +339,18 @@ Rivets.binders =
 
       @iterated = []
 
-      for item in collection
-        data = {}
-        data[n] = m for n, m of @view.models
-        data[@args[0]] = item
-        itemEl = el.cloneNode true
-        if @iterated.length > 0
-          previous = @iterated[@iterated.length - 1].els[0]
-        else
-          previous = @marker
-        @marker.parentNode.insertBefore itemEl, previous.nextSibling ? null
-        @iterated.push rivets.bind itemEl, data
+      if collection
+        for item in collection
+          data = {}
+          data[n] = m for n, m of @view.models
+          data[@args[0]] = item
+          itemEl = el.cloneNode true
+          if @iterated.length > 0
+            previous = @iterated[@iterated.length - 1].els[0]
+          else
+            previous = @marker
+          @marker.parentNode.insertBefore itemEl, previous.nextSibling ? null
+          @iterated.push rivets.bind itemEl, data
 
   "class-*": (el, value) ->
     elClass = " #{el.className} "