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Manish Shrivastava
Manish Shrivastava

Reputation: 32050

Can we call a Controller's method from a view (as we call from helper ideally)?

In Rails MVC, can you call a controller's method from a view (as a method could be called call from a helper)? If yes, how?

Upvotes: 79

Views: 81401

Answers (4)

sailor
sailor

Reputation: 8044

Here is the answer:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  def my_method
    # Lots of stuff
  end
  helper_method :my_method
end

Then, in your view, you can reference it in ERB exactly how you expect with <% or <%=:

<% my_method %>

Upvotes: 175

Wahaj Ali
Wahaj Ali

Reputation: 4103

Haven't ever tried this, but calling public methods is similar to:

@controller.public_method

and private methods:

@controller.send("private_method", args)

See more details here

Upvotes: 9

przbadu
przbadu

Reputation: 6049

make your action helper method using helper_method :your_action_name

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  def foo
    # your foo logic
  end
  helper_method :foo

  def bar
    # your bar logic
  end
  helper_method :bar
end

Or you can also make all actions as your helper method using: helper :all

 class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   helper :all

   def foo
    # your foo logic
   end

   def bar
    # your bar logic
   end
 end

In both cases, you can access foo and bar from all controllers.

Upvotes: 9

Pavling
Pavling

Reputation: 3963

You possibly want to declare your method as a "helper_method", or alternatively move it to a helper.

What do helper and helper_method do?

Upvotes: 23

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