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Reputation: 52530

Where to put Ruby helper methods for Rails controllers?

I have some Ruby methods certain (or all) controllers need. I tried putting them in /app/helpers/application_helper.rb. I've used that for methods to be used in views. But controllers don't see those methods. Is there another place I should put them or do I need to access those helper methods differently?

Using latest stable Rails.

Upvotes: 81

Views: 65244

Answers (6)

John Cleary
John Cleary

Reputation: 987

For Rails 4 onwards, concerns are the way to go. There was a decent article which can still be viewed via the Wayback Machine.

In essence, if you look in your controllers folder you should see a concerns sub-folder. Create a module in there along these lines

module EventsHelper
  def do_something
  end
end

Then, in the controller just include it

class BadgeController < ApplicationController
  include EventsHelper

  ...
end

Upvotes: 76

Aparichith
Aparichith

Reputation: 1535

Including helpers in controller will end-up exposing helper methods as actions!

# With new rails (>= 5) 

helpers.my_helper_method


# For console

helper.my_helper_method

Upvotes: 1

Muhamamd Awais
Muhamamd Awais

Reputation: 2385

you should define methods inside application controller, if you have few methods then you can do as follow

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base    
  helper_method :first_method
  helper_method :second_method

  def first_method
    ... #your code
  end

  def second_method
    ... #your code
  end
end

You can also include helper files as follow

class YourController < ApplicationController
  include OneHelper
  include TwoHelper
end

Upvotes: 30

David
David

Reputation: 7303

You can call any helper methods from a controller using the view_context, e.g.

view_context.my_helper_method

Upvotes: 21

hyperrjas
hyperrjas

Reputation: 10744

Ryan Bigg response is good.

Other possible solution is add helpers to your controller:

class YourController < ApplicationController
  include OneHelper
  include TwoHelper
 end

Best Regards!

Upvotes: 8

Ryan Bigg
Ryan Bigg

Reputation: 107728

You should define the method inside ApplicationController.

Upvotes: 79

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