# ActionController::Base.send :include,

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actioncontroller-base-send-include/155116>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 8, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actioncontroller-base-send-include/155116 "2008-12-08T10:12:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actioncontroller-base-send-include/155116/1 "2008-12-08T10:12:04Z")

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Hi  
n one of the pluggin I saw this code Could anybody please tell what  
does all this mean

ActionController::Base.send :include, helper\_name  
ActionController::Base.helper helper\_name  
ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder.send :include, helper\_name

Thanks in advance  
Sijo

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actioncontroller-base-send-include/155116/2 "2008-12-08T14:11:47Z")

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The first line is including some instance methods into  
ActionController::Base (from which ApplicationController inherits).  
The second line then adds helper\_name to the list of helpers available  
to all controllers.  
The final line does the same thing for the views.