just use the placeholder tag value if it is passed as a String

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tags/placeholderable.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tags/placeholderable.rb
index 313aa725c9..ae67bc13af 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tags/placeholderable.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/tags/placeholderable.rb
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ module ActionView
           super
 
           if tag_value = @options[:placeholder]
+            placeholder = tag_value if tag_value.is_a?(String)
+
             object_name = @object_name.gsub(/\[(.*)_attributes\]\[\d+\]/, '.\1')
             method_and_value = tag_value.is_a?(TrueClass) ? @method_name : "#{@method_name}.#{tag_value}"
 
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ module ActionView
             end
 
             i18n_default ||= ""
-            placeholder = I18n.t("#{object_name}.#{method_and_value}", :default => i18n_default, :scope => "helpers.placeholder").presence
+            placeholder ||= I18n.t("#{object_name}.#{method_and_value}", :default => i18n_default, :scope => "helpers.placeholder").presence
 
             placeholder ||= if object && object.class.respond_to?(:human_attribute_name)
                           object.class.human_attribute_name(method_and_value)