Play with view helpers from inside script/console?

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I vaguely remember being able to do something like this from inside script/console:

helper.image_path 'picture.png'

and it would do the same as this equivalent ERb:

<%= image_path 'picture.png' %>

but I'm getting an error now when I try to do that ("you had a nil object...").

Obviously I'm not remembering something correctly... what is the right way to access all those nice ActionView helpers from within script/console?

(I've tried with 1.1.6 and edge... I thought this used to work in 1.1, maybe I'm wrong)

Thanks Jeff

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It may be too late to be of help, but I was trying to do this myself and couldnt remember how. I am answering this cos I know I will forget again. So...

From script/console; to get to helpers in module CustomerHelper for

example use

include ActionView::Helpers::CustomerHelper

it's simple when you remember but annoying when you can't. Perhaps one for someones cheat sheet.

Tonypm