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Helpers Outside Views

#132 Helpers Outside Views

Oct 20, 2008 | 6 minutes | Active Record, Views, Controllers
Have you ever wanted to access helper methods outside of the view layer? In this episode I show you a couple ways to do just that.
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models/category.rb 
def description
  "This category has #{helpers.pluralize(products.count, 'product')}."
end

def helpers
  ActionController::Base.helpers
end
products_controller.rb 
def create
  @product = Product.new(params[:product])
  if @product.save
    flash[:notice] = "Successfully created #{@template.link_to('product', @product)}."
    redirect_to products_url
  else
    render :action => 'new'
  end
end