Question

As given on http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html, creating a resourceful route will also expose a number of helpers to the controllers in the application. For example a resourceful route resources :photos will provide helpers like photos_path,new_photo_path etc.
Now, i can call a helper in the rails console using the helper object, for example helper.link_to "this", "that". But calling helper.photos_path in the rails console does not work,however in the controller those helpers are accessible. Why is this so ?

Thank You

Answer 1

route helpers are available within the app object, so you can get access to them this way

app.photos_path     # => "/photos"