I'd like to use the mail_to method in a model

Rails
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Hi all

I’d like to use the mail_to method from the views within a model:

How can I include this module into my model?

Thanks
Josh

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Joshua M.
[email protected] wrote:

Hi all

I’d like to use the mail_to method from the views within a model:

ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper

How can I include this module into my model?

Ok, besides the obvious question of “Why on earth would you do that?”,
I think you can require the helper on your model, but seriously… why
would you do that? It just feels wrong, you’re mixing UI within your
model.

–
Leonardo M…
There’s no place like ~

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On Oct 13, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Leonardo M. wrote:

Ok, besides the obvious question of “Why on earth would you do that?”,
I think you can require the helper on your model, but seriously… why
would you do that? It just feels wrong, you’re mixing UI within your
model.

–
Leonardo M…
There’s no place like ~

Well, I often (for example in an InvoiceItem model):

include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper#number_to_currency
def to_s
“%-40.40s %5d %14s %14s”%[self.description, self.units,
number_to_currency(self.unit_price),
number_to_currency(self.total)]
end

So as to not duplicate the number_to_currency functionality. But
that’s just a wee bit of the NumberHelper. You do know how to handle a
loaded Ruby feature like ‘include’ don’t you? BTW, it’s really just
include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
because the # starts the comment. It’s really just a little hint and
just happens to look like the instance method convention of RDoc.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

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Here’s how to use the mail_to helper in a view:

On Oct 13, 5:14 pm, Joshua M. [email protected]