Ryan's Scraps

If you’ve any sort of organizational sense to you at all chances are you’ve got quite a few helpers tucked in your app/helpers directory (not the stock ones that go one-to-one with your controllers, but other custom ones you’ve written to handle various other common tasks). If so, your application controller probably also has quite a few helper statements to make them available:

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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  # Our many helpers that need to be available throughout the app
  [:formatting, :highlighting, :i18n].each { |h| helper h }

  ...
end

We’ve now got a convenient way to bulk include our helpers.

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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  # Make all helpers in app/helpers/**/ available
  helper :all

  ...
end

Update: Feb. 26th: I previously thought you had to have helper sub-directories to get them properly loaded, but DHH has corrected me. Any and all helpers in your helper directories will get pulled in

And to top things off this is now the default behavior – meaning that all helpers in your helpers directory are automatically included for you. (Hey – you wanted opinionated software)

tags: rubyonrails, rails