# Accessing helpers within partials within helpers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-helpers-within-partials-within-helpers/161751>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 2, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-helpers-within-partials-within-helpers/161751 "2009-03-02T04:18:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![brendon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@brendon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brendon)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-helpers-within-partials-within-helpers/161751/1 "2009-03-02T04:18:39Z")

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Hi everyone, not sure if this is a bug or just normal behaviour:

From a layout file call a helper, inside that helper render a partial,  
inside that partial call a different helper.

I find that the last helper doesn’t actually get called, and when I  
try to inspect its class it’s NilClass.

Is this a scoping problem?

Cheers,

Brendon