stuff placed in application_helper.rb is only available to your Views / Helpers.
If you want a constant to be available to everything put it in your config/environment.rb file
Or if you only need it in your controllers controller/application.rb.
Just models you can create a module in your /lib folder and mix it in with ActiveRecord::Base to make it available to all your models.
I know you wanted them all but I figured I'd just cover the others as a bonus.
Hope I helped, Jim
Hi,
now I may get corrected or put down for this, but I have put some constants into my models where I wanted to have them available for mapping view information against model attributes.
If you want some constants available globally (something I have been thinking about myself), but don't view them as being Environment type variables, then could you not create a model Class to contain the models and then reference them by that class. That would seem to me to be a fairly clean approach, but someone may say that this goes against the 'rules'? I would be interested to know.
tonypm
In the application controller you could put this line of code: 'include ApplicationHelper' in order to be able to use the helper methods in the controller. Another approach is to put your code in the /lib folder and do a require 'filename' in the controller or model.
I'd suggest not just wholesale-including ApplicationHelper into ApplicationController. Any public methods in controllers in Rails end up being exposed as actions, which may have inadvertent side effects, unless you call hide_action on them, and it's generally better practice to separate view and controller.
- Gabriel