ruby - NoMethodError when trying to invoke helper method from Rails controller

Question

I'm getting a NoMethodError when trying to access a method defined in one of my helper modules from one of my controller classes. My Rails application uses the helper class method with the :all symbol as shown below:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  helper :all
  .
  .
end

My understanding is that this should make all of my controller classes automatically include all of the helper modules within the app/helpers directory, therefore mixing in all of the methods into the controllers. Is this correct?

If I explicitly include the helper module within the controller then everything works correctly.

Answer 1

To use the helper methods already included in the template engine:

• Rails 2: use the @template variable.
• Rails 3: has the nice controller method view_context

Example usage of calling 'number_to_currency' in a controller method:

# rails 3 sample
def controller_action
  @price = view_context.number_to_currency( 42.0 ) 
end

# rails 2 sample
def controller_action
  @price = @template.number_to_currency( 42.0 ) 
end