Comments on: Ruby on Rails: Accessing Controller Methods from Your View

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:35:48 +0000

but if you put into helper, you can’t access to request object.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:34:48 +0000

Leon has clearly got the cleanest solution.
All your helper methods are available in your views already, but if you need to declare some methods in the controller as helper_methods, this works beautifully.

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By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:15:25 +0000

Can you just do this?

helper_method :public_method_name

This makes your controller method a helper method as well.

By: Jeremy Weiskotten

Jeremy Weiskotten — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:14:37 +0000

A better way, IMO, is to call #helper_method in your controller to declare any methods as “helpers” for use in views:

helper_method :my_helper