Rails 3 View helper method in Model
In your model, you can do something like the following:
ApplicationController.helpers.your_helper_methodOR
YourController.helpers.your_helper_methodThe best solution is to refactor your code so that you don't need to call view helper code at all from models. It is not the RoR way. As others point out, you could extract the helper code to lib folder.
See this for more info:
You may place helper in your lib folder and include them anythere.Like this:lib/some_helper.rb
module SomeHelper def somedef #your code there endend
If you need the helper in a class method you'd need to extend it, not include it.
module TalkHelper def woo; 'hoo' endend class MyClass extend TalkHelper def self.boo; woo endendMyClass.boo #=> 'hoo'Just be careful with helpers outside of the view context, as helpers may depend on controller, or something else from the context of a request, which will not be available in your model.