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Pcushing
Pcushing

Reputation: 371

Access to rails engine route helpers outside views/controllers

I couldn't find this anywhere and just went in circles with it so I figured someone else might benefit. How do you get access to rails url helpers in an engine?

For the core app, I can do something like this:

class Thingy < ActiveRecord::Base    
 include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
 ...
end

But this doesnt work in models in an engine.

Upvotes: 24

Views: 6618

Answers (1)

Pcushing
Pcushing

Reputation: 371

Looks like you need to specify the routes that're particular to your engine. So in your engine's model, for example, you can do this:

module Blog
 class Stuffy
  include Blog::Engine.routes.url_helpers
  ...
 end
end

And now you can use the url helpers from your engine inside your engine's models.

Upvotes: 12

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