title: How to use RequestContexts in render_to_response in Django 1.8
body: <p>I understand things have changed in Django 1.8 with how render_to_response
  takes arguments. I have lots of views and use this pattern everywhere:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>...return render_to_response(  template, context,
    context_instance=MyRequestContext(request))</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>MyRequestContext extends the RequestContext and adds some paramaters I always use in my templates. </p>
  
  <p>Now this no longer works, and values in MyRequestContext is no longer accessible in the templates anymore.</p>
  
  <p>So how should RequestContext be use now in Django 1.8? I need them + some context passed to all my templates.</p>
  
  <p>/ J</p>
  
  <p>-- EDIT --</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for all the answers, as you point out <em>this should work</em>...</p>
  
  <p>I ended up rewriting and replacing my previous subclassing of RequestContext --> MyRequestContext w. doing a separate ContextProcessors function and adding this into my OPTIONS:context_processors list and then using a normal RequestContext(request) in all of my views. Not sure what bug/problem I had in old solutions but this works now. Again - thanks for inspiration and responses.</p>