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Use helpers in controllers or models

/ Published in: Ruby

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

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# create a new file inside lib/ and call it helpers.rb
# paste the following:
 
def help
  Helper.instance
end
 
class Helper
  include Singleton
  # look inside ActionView::Helpers to include any other helpers that you might need
  include ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper
  include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper
end
 
# then in any model or controller:
require 'lib/helpers'
 
# to use:
# help.name_of_helper
# EX: help.pluralize 10, "person"