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Use helpers in controllers or models

Published in: Ruby 

URL: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1799

This is an easy to use any helpers that rails provides in any other place besides views and view helpers

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  1. # create a new file inside lib/ and call it helpers.rb
  2. # paste the following:
  3.  
  4. def help
  5.   Helper.instance
  6. end
  7.  
  8. class Helper
  9.   include Singleton
  10.   # look inside ActionView::Helpers to include any other helpers that you might need
  11.   include ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper
  12.   include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper
  13. end
  14.  
  15. # then in any model or controller:
  16. require 'lib/helpers'
  17.  
  18. # to use:
  19. # help.name_of_helper
  20. # EX: help.pluralize 10, "person"

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