Question

I’m working on a Rails project at the moment, and I’m building a view using json_builder to use with the Layar API like so:

layer "Layer name"
errorString "ok"
errorCode 0
hotspots @inspections do |inspection|
    id inspection.slug
    anchor do
        geolocation do
            lat inspection.lat
            lon inspection.lng
        end
    end
    text do
        title inspection.name
        description "#{inspection.rating} out of 5"
        imageURL "http://my-url.com/assets/rating#{inspection.rating}.png"
    end
end

However, when I load this view in my browser, the title part of my JSON doesn’t appear. I’ve managed to narrow this down to a helper method in my layout_helper file (I’ve been using nifty-generators), also named title. As I don’t need this helper, is there any way of running clear_helpers for this particular controller action only? Or is there a neater way of doing this? (I’m pretty new to Rails, as you can probably tell!)

Answer 1

I ended up renaming the problematic helper method to pagetitle and changing my views. Sometimes the simplest solutions are easiest!