Using ERB inside a controller

Rails
1

I know it’s not desirable to use ERB inside the controller in theory,
but I think I really need and I’m having problems.

I am using GMap the Google Map helper and all the coding for the
markers (pop-ups) is done inside the controller. So often you do
something like:

markers << GMarker.new([obj.lat, obj.lng],
:title => obj.name,
:info_window => “Bob’s House”,
:icon => obj.gicon
)

but instead of a boring plain text in the info_window I wanted to use
ajax links to dynamically update divs. Thus i would be nice to use
e.g. link_to_remote and friends, but since that is in a view helper I
can’t use can I? Must I resort to raw javascript?

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On 19 Apr 2008, at 23:48, Col W. wrote:

     :info_window => "Bob's House",
     :icon => obj.gicon
   )

but instead of a boring plain text in the info_window I wanted to use
ajax links to dynamically update divs. Thus i would be nice to use
e.g. link_to_remote and friends, but since that is in a view helper I
can’t use can I? Must I resort to raw javascript?
You can just include the relevant helper modules into your controller.
Slightly more clean is to have a helpers object into which you include
all those modules. You then have to say helpers.link_to_remote but you
don’t end up with dozens of methods added to your controller.

Fred