Weakness of helper?

Rails
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Hi ,
It comes to me that helper has some weaknesses:
1) It is hard to test . No easy way to write test code for it.
(or Just i didn’t know?)
2) Not easy to reuse it on other controller/view/model.

  it looks like to that putting the helper code into a model (a

fully helper model , or a mixed model) is good practice.

  However i agree that some html intensive code still sites best

in helper .

 Any idea?

thanks
Kevin

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Kevin Yang wrote:

in helper .

  1. You can test helpers, using TopFunky’s plugin (see
    http://nubyonrails.com/articles/test-your-helpers).

  2. Well, you don’t generally want to reuse them in models - they are
    View helpers, after all.

There’s been some discussion about presenter patterns in models, but I
don’t see a consensus appearing yet (and there’s way too much fu in
those discussions for a relative amateur like me to have a view).

However, if you have a pattern which you genuinely need to have in both
the controller and the helper (the current_user is a classic example),
you can define as a provate method in the controler and then make
available to the view by calling helper :some_method in the relevant
controller

Cheers
Chris

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Chris T wrote:

  However i agree that some html intensive code still sites best

However, if you have a pattern which you genuinely need to have in
both the controller and the helper (the current_user is a classic
example), you can define as a provate method in the controler and then
make available to the view by calling helper :some_method in the
relevant controller

Cheers
Chris

Sorry that should be helper_method :some_method
Doh!

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