# View (or template) to helper to view ... magic

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-or-template-to-helper-to-view-magic/187830>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 30, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-or-template-to-helper-to-view-magic/187830 "2010-04-30T01:27:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/view-or-template-to-helper-to-view-magic/187830/1 "2010-04-30T01:27:03Z")

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I early Rails 2, I wrote code in my show.erb.html file like this:

```
  <% display_qs_body(binding) %>

```

display\_qs\_body was in a helper file and it passed binding along and  
used (as I recall) concat(binding, “text”). concat changed so you no  
longer passed binding somewhere later in Rails 2.

I came to believe that this worked but was not really the proper way to  
do things. So, that is really what I’m asking… how is a view suppose  
to call into a helper which may call into a template which calls back to  
a helper, etc.

The helpers may or may not want to prepend or append text to what the  
next level deeper.

And, since Rails 3 is just around the corner, how does this sort of  
thing work in Rails 3?

Thank you,  
Perry