Question

I am looking to write certain methods for processing strings, and other tasks that take place in numerous of my controllers. I know its bad practice to include helpers in your controller, so I was just wondering, where is the best place to put application wide methods used in controllers?

I realize some of you will say to put them in models, but you have to realize that not all my controllers have an associated model. Any and all input would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you need to use a method in the application scope then I would suggest that you keep those methods inside the application controller and in order to use them inside views.. declare those as helper methods.

For example,

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 helper_method :current_user, :some_method

 def current_user
   @user ||= User.find_by_id(session[:user_id])
 end

 def some_method
 end
end