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Dennis HackethalOP revised 12 days ago·#1980

Hiccdown methods should live in Rails helpers as class methods. That way, the problem described in #302 is solved – methods can be referenced unambiguously:

ProductsHelper.index
StoresHelper.index
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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year ago·#305

Does that mean they wouldn’t have access to the view_context? If so, calling helper methods from inside these class methods wouldn’t be possible.

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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year ago·#310

If so, there might be a way to bind them to the view_context. Or I could definitely pass the view_context explicitly as the first parameter:

So instead of

@helper_module.instance_method(@action_name).bind_call(view_context)

I would do

@helper_module.send(@action_name, view_context)

And the parameter list of each Hiccdown method would start accordingly:

module ProductsHelper
  def self.index vc #, …
    vc.some_helper_method
  end

  def some_helper_method
    # …
  end
end
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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#312

That would be mixing class methods an instance methods in Rails helper modules, which typically only contain instance methods. Not idiomatic Rails usage.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#332

#327 applies here, too: no access to instance variables inside helper class methods.

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