Rails using included helpers inside class methods?

It's hard to tell without seeing your helper code, but include will insert all of the methods in that module into instances of the class you include into extend is used to bring methods into a class Therefore, if you just have methods defined in NumberHelper, these are being put onto all instances, but not the class, of MyClass The way that lots of Rails extensions work is using techniques that have been consolidated into ActiveSupport::Concern Here is a good overview Essentially, extending ActiveSupport::Concern in your modules will allow you to specify, in sub-modules called ClassMethods and InstanceMethods, what functions you want to be added to classes and instances into which you include your module. For example: module Foo extend ActiveSupport::Concern module ClassMethods def bar puts "I'm a Bar! " end end module InstanceMethods def baz puts "I'm a Baz!" end end end class Quox include Foo end Quox.

Bar => "I'm a Bar" Quox.new. Baz => "I'm a Baz I've used this before to do things like define the bar function in ClassMethods, then also make it available to instances by defining a bar method of the same name that just calls this.class. Bar, making it callable from both.

There are lots of other helpful things that ActiveSupport::Concern does, like allowing you to define blocks that are called back when the module is included Now, this is happening here specifically because you're include ing your helper, which might indicate that this functionality is more general-purpose than a helper - helpers are only automatically included in views since they are only intended to help with views. If you want to use your helper in a view, you could use the helper_method macro in your class to make that method visible to your views, or, even better, make a module as above and not think about it as a helper, but use include to mix it in to the classes you want to use it in. I think I would go that route - there's nothing that says you can't make a HumanReadableNumber module and include it in NumberHelper to make it easily available across your views.

It's hard to tell without seeing your helper code, but include will insert all of the methods in that module into instances of the class you include into. Extend is used to bring methods into a class. Therefore, if you just have methods defined in NumberHelper, these are being put onto all instances, but not the class, of MyClass.

The way that lots of Rails extensions work is using techniques that have been consolidated into ActiveSupport::Concern. Here is a good overview. Essentially, extending ActiveSupport::Concern in your modules will allow you to specify, in sub-modules called ClassMethods and InstanceMethods, what functions you want to be added to classes and instances into which you include your module.

For example: module Foo extend ActiveSupport::Concern module ClassMethods def bar puts "I'm a Bar! " end end module InstanceMethods def baz puts "I'm a Baz! " end end end class Quox include Foo end Quox.

Bar => "I'm a Bar" Quox.new. Baz => "I'm a Baz" I've used this before to do things like define the bar function in ClassMethods, then also make it available to instances by defining a bar method of the same name that just calls this.class. Bar, making it callable from both.

There are lots of other helpful things that ActiveSupport::Concern does, like allowing you to define blocks that are called back when the module is included. Now, this is happening here specifically because you're includeing your helper, which might indicate that this functionality is more general-purpose than a helper - helpers are only automatically included in views, since they are only intended to help with views. If you want to use your helper in a view, you could use the helper_method macro in your class to make that method visible to your views, or, even better, make a module as above and not think about it as a helper, but use include to mix it in to the classes you want to use it in.

I think I would go that route - there's nothing that says you can't make a HumanReadableNumber module and include it in NumberHelper to make it easily available across your views.

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