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David Jay
David Jay

Reputation: 173

Accessing Helpers in Heroku Console

In order to track activity in my application, I built a set of helpers which take in arrays of data and spit out .csv files. I want to use these from the console like so:

helper.export_data(array_of_data)

This works fine on my machine, but the heroku console doesn't seem to let me call helper functions. I receive the error:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `helper' for main:Object

Upvotes: 2

Views: 266

Answers (2)

jpw
jpw

Reputation: 19257

Had same question, and found the answer here: http://www.funonrails.com/2011/03/accessing-view-helpers-routes-in-rails.html

relevant part is:

>> include ActionView::Helpers 
>> => Object 
>> include ApplicationHelper 
>> => Object 
>> include ActionView::Helpers::ApplicationHelper^C 
>> display_amount 2500 => "$2,500"

Upvotes: 1

Neil Middleton
Neil Middleton

Reputation: 22240

I would guess here that your application is doing some sort of initialisation to get helper loaded into your console, and that that initialisation isn't occurring when you spin up a Heroku console.

Is there anything that you have done in your code which initialises this helper object?

Upvotes: 1

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