I just read the article by Pratik Naik from the Rails Core Team regarding Rails Templates.

Have you ever wished you could start out your Rails application with all of your gems installed and all of your standard setup items completed? Well, wait no longer. You can now do it with Rails Templates. Pratik covered it pretty well, so I’m not going to repeat what he’s done. Rather, I’m going to share a template of my own and explain why I included what I did.

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I’ve recently seen several requests come through from people trying to figure out how to call controller methods from their views. The answer is pretty simple. Your controller instance, which is calling your view is stored in the instance variable @controller. So, calling public methods is as simple as this:

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@controller.public_method

To call a private method you can do this:

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@controller.send("private_method", args)

You should note that if you’re calling controller methods frequently in your views, you should consider putting them into helpers to make them available that way. If you need to manipulate or manage some data, the controller is the place to access the models for this, not the views.

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