Rails 3 View helper method in Model

Question

I have a class method in my model, and I need to access a method from one of my view helpers. Currently I am including include TalkHelper, but I still get a NoMethodError.

score 42 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 22 '16 at 15:56

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In your model, you can do something like the following:

ApplicationController.helpers.your_helper_method

OR

YourController.helpers.your_helper_method

The best solution is to refactor your code so that you don't need to call view helper code at all from models. It is not the RoR way. As others point out, you could extract the helper code to lib folder.

See this for more info:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/132-helpers-outside-views

edited Jan 22 '16 at 15:56

Matthias

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answered Sep 19 '11 at 00:29

Innerpeacer

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I ended up following your advice and refractoring my code so that I did not have to use the helper method in the model. – LanguagesNamedAfterCofee Sep 19 '11 at 03:08

railscard · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-01T11:15:13.520

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You may place helper in your lib folder and include them anythere. Like this: lib/some_helper.rb

module SomeHelper
  def somedef
    #your code there
  end
end

edited Dec 01 '12 at 11:15

answered Sep 18 '11 at 23:40

railscard

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should be `module` (lowercase)? – Tyler DeWitt Nov 30 '12 at 01:40

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 19 '11 at 00:05

If you need the helper in a class method you'd need to extend it, not include it.

module TalkHelper
  def woo; 'hoo' end
end   

class MyClass
  extend TalkHelper

  def self.boo; woo end
end

MyClass.boo #=> 'hoo'

Just be careful with helpers outside of the view context, as helpers may depend on controller, or something else from the context of a request, which will not be available in your model.

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