include ActionView::Helpers in Rails 3?

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How do you do the equivalent of:

module MyLibrary   include ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper end

...in Rails 3?

I'm trying to upgrade my app from 2.3.9 to 3.0.1 and I have some stuff in /lib that needs to include these helpers from ActionView. It works fine in 2.3.x, but in 3.x it's giving me the error:

undefined local variable or method `config'

One of the methods in AssetTagHelper now tries to access controller.config.perform_caching, but since no controller exists in my library, it flips out. Any way around this?

Thanks! Marc

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I'm trying to figure out the same thing. Please post an update if you have a solution.

Thanks

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Andrew Kaspick wrote in post #956776:

I'm trying to figure out the same thing. Please post an update if you have a solution.

Thanks

Ok, here's my solution, but it feels dirty... it'd be nice if somebody knew if there was a "proper" solution.

Anyway, I added the following methods to my module. I used extend so I'm using self on these, but since you're using include, you can drop the self part.

  def self.config=(controller)     @controller = controller   end   def self.config     @controller   end   def self.controller     @controller   end

I just call call the config= method with a controller object; if you don't have one, you'll have to gain access to it somehow.