Question

I need a place to stick global referentially transparent utility methods. These should be accessible from everywhere in rails (Models, Views, Controllers, and everywhere else). e.g.:

bool = GlobalUtilities.to_bool "false"
unicorn = GlobalUtilities.make_me_a "unicorn"

What’s the best way to do this?

Answer 1

You could always stick these in /lib and require them. See bricker’s answer — you can require these modules to be loaded from your application.rb, which will make them accessible everywhere.

See: Rails lib directory