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#3601 ✓invalid

ActionController::Base.helpers proxy fails for helper_method-helpers

Reported by Jonas Grimfelt | December 19th, 2009 @ 09:14 PM | in 3.x

In controller:

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  
    helper_method :quack!

    protected

      def quack!
        "Quack, quack!"
      end

  end

In view:

  = quack!  # => "Quack, quack!"
  = ActionController::Base.helpers.quack!  # => undefined method `quack!' for #<ActionView::Base:0x1058925c8>

Weird. I would like to state that I think this should work - I actually really needs to access helpers from outside of ActionView template in a few cases. I'm not sure why it's not working, because it seems like it was supposed to work according to the source:

http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/2-3-stable/actionpack/lib/action...

Comments and changes to this ticket

Rohit Arondekar October 8th, 2010 @ 12:24 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
- Milestone set to “3.x”
- Importance changed from “” to “Low”
This is still an issue in Rails 3.
José Valim October 8th, 2010 @ 12:36 PM
- State changed from “open” to “invalid”
This will not work. If you define the helper_method :quack in ApplicationController, you need to access it as ApplicationController.helpers.quack and not as ActionController::Base.helpers.quack.