Question

I made a simple helper with one function and put it in the relevant controller_helper and I noticed that the function is valid from the whole application views.

Why is that? shouldn’t the helper be valid only to his controller?

Answer 1

The process is the following:

If you’re in a view belonging to controller foo and you call a helper called my_helper:

• if defined in foo‘s helper, it’s executed from here

• if not defined in foo‘s helper but defined in another helper, say bar, it’s executed from there

• if not in foo nor in any bar, it’s checked in application_helper. If it doesn’t exist here, an error is raised.