App/helpers in Rails

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1

Hello!

I am new to ruby (and to ruby on rails). Having created some helpers
with
script/generate helper HelperName

how do I access them in controllers and views? :-/

Tuo Pe

2

Probably, include them into the controller you need, or into
ApplicationController to make them available everywhere.

But I don't know, haven't touched Rails in awhile. Ask the Rails list.

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On Saturday 28 November 2009 11:30:06 am T_P wrote:

Having created some helpers
with
script/generate helper HelperName

how do I access them in controllers and views? :-/

3

T_P wrote:

how do I access them in controllers and views? :-/

They are available in views already.

For a method to be available both in controllers and views, define it as
a method in the ApplicationController instead:

private
  def my_helper(foo)
    return "#{foo}!!"
  end
  helper_method :my_helper

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4

You can specify "helper :all" in ApplicationController.rb, which will make
all helpers available to all controllers and views.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Helpers/ClassMethods.html#M000490

-Evan

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On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

On Saturday 28 November 2009 11:30:06 am T_P wrote:
> Having created some helpers
> with
> script/generate helper HelperName
>
> how do I access them in controllers and views? :-/

Probably, include them into the controller you need, or into
ApplicationController to make them available everywhere.

But I don't know, haven't touched Rails in awhile. Ask the Rails list.