Access parent app's helper methods from rails engine

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All,

Is there a way to access a parent application's helper methods from a Rails 3.1 engine?

I'm trying to create an engine which will call something like "current_user" on the parent application to determine if a user is signed in or not. I would like the engine to function regardless of whatever authentication process the parent application is using. i.e. simply relying on warden['env'] is not good enough.

Any help is truly appreciated.

Thanks! Adam