How to properly define constants in helpers?

Rails
1

Let’s say I have a helper module like this

module ThingsHelper
DEFAULT_OPTIONS = { … }.freeze

def my_helper(options = {})
options.reverse_merge!(DEFAULT_OPTIONS)
…
end
end

Then, in development environment, I get

…/app/helpers/things_helper.rb:2: warning: already initialized
constant DEFAULT_OPTIONS

Is there anything I can do about this warning?

Michael

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2

I think you are having the same problem as I at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/b2ff5ff2b9e009d7
. I bet your helper is getting included twice.

3

On Monday 30 August 2010, richardsugg wrote:

I think you are having the same problem as I at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/
b2ff5ff2b9e009d7 . I bet your helper is getting included twice.

I’m not sure. I’m never including it explicitly. As it is a helper, it
is loaded automatically.

However, there is one special thing. I’m defining the helper in question
in an engine and to have it included automatically by helper :all, I add
the path engine helper path in an initializer block of the engine

initializer ‘make MyEngine helpers automatically loadable’,
:before => “action_controller.set_configs” do |app|
paths.app.helpers.each do |path|
app.paths.app.helpers << path
end
end

and unfortunately, that in some way appears to cause the warning.

Michael

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Michael S.
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.schuerig.de/michael/