Changeset 9234

Timestamp:

04/06/08 18:42:34 (8 months ago)

Author:

josh

Message:

Provide a helper proxy to access helper methods from outside views. Closes #10839 [Josh Peek]

Files:

• trunk/actionpack/CHANGELOG (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/actionpack/test/controller/helper_test.rb (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/actionpack/CHANGELOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-*SVN*
+
+* Provide a helper proxy to access helper methods from outside views. Closes #10839 [Josh Peek]
+  e.g. ApplicationController.helpers.simple_format(text)
-
-* Improve documentation. [Xavier Noria, leethal, jerome]

trunk/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb

@@ -168 +168 @@
-      end
-
+      # Provides a proxy to access helpers methods from outside the view.
+      def helpers
+        unless @helper_proxy
+          @helper_proxy = ActionView::Base.new
+          @helper_proxy.extend master_helper_module
+        else
+          @helper_proxy
+        end
+      end
-
-      private

trunk/actionpack/test/controller/helper_test.rb

@@ -131 +131 @@
-  end
-
+  def test_helper_proxy
+    methods = ApplicationController.helpers.methods.map(&:to_s)
+
+    # ActionView
+    assert methods.include?('pluralize')
+
+    # abc_helper.rb
+    assert methods.include?('bare_a')
+
+    # fun/games_helper.rb
+    assert methods.include?('stratego')
+
+    # fun/pdf_helper.rb
+    assert methods.include?('foobar')
+  end
+
-  private
-    def expected_helper_methods