# Rails3 engine questions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3-engine-questions/192848>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 6, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3-engine-questions/192848 "2010-08-06T20:51:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![corin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@corin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/corin)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails3-engine-questions/192848/1 "2010-08-06T20:51:54Z")

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Hi!

I’m using rails3 (rc and/or master) together with a rails engine. The  
main app should use the models, controllers etc. of the engine and so  
far this works fine. But currently only the plugins & view helpers of  
the main application are loaded/useable, those of the engine are  
unavailable. I wonder how I can make the main application to load/use  
the plugins and view helpers of the engine too. I tried several things  
with setting config.paths but I didn’t work. Any help would really be  
appreciated 🙂

Corin