Request: Make UrlHelper methods available for controllers

rubyonrails-core
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I had a need for accessing the methods in ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper in my controllers to conditionally return link HTML to my views depending on login state etc.

I think that the UrlHelper should by default be added to all Controllers and methods such as link_to made available for views using helper_method :link_to.

What do you think?

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I'm having problems using url_for in a controller. The original method looks like this, but the @controller variable is unknown in this context. However if I remove it, it goes in an endless loop for the Hash case. Anyone?

      def url_for(options = {})         options ||= {}         url = case options         when String           escape = true           options         when Hash           options = { :only_path => options[:host].nil? }.update(options.symbolize_keys)           escape = options.key?(:escape) ? options.delete(:escape) : true           @controller.send(:url_for, options)         when :back           escape = false           @controller.request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] || 'javascript:history.back()'         else           escape = false           polymorphic_path(options)         end

        escape ? escape_once(url) : url       end

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Kristian,

If I understand what you are trying to do, then its a little backwards. You really shouldn't be generating view stuff in the controller. Instead you can create a class variable like @logged_in and then use that to selectively show certain components in the view.

Allen Madsen