How do you gain access to the helper methods inside the controller with Rails

Question

I want to use a method i have in my helper inside my controller. I don't know how to use the view_context which i've heard could do the trick

Generally, the opposite is made: controllers methods are used as helpers — apneadiving, Jul 09 '11 at 21:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '11 at 21:17

3

As apneadiving said, make it a controller method and make that a helper method.

application_controller.rb

  helper_method :do_stuff

  def do_stuff
    #this method is available in all controllers and views

answered Jul 09 '11 at 21:17

mark

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '11 at 22:39

0

I vote for @apneadiving's idea. But here goes:

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  include SomeHelper
end

answered Jul 09 '11 at 22:39

jimworm

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