Define Helpers in As Few Locations as Possible
Understand how to manage Rails helpers by centralizing markup helpers in application_helper.rb while placing global state helpers in ApplicationController. This approach reduces conflicts, improves code clarity, and maintains consistent access to UI state in views and controllers.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Markup generator helpers
Helpers that generate markup or wrap the invocation of render should be in the app/helpers/application_helper.rb file. In fact, that should be the only file in app/helpers. The reason is that helpers represent a global namespace, so if we attempt to organize helpers into multiple files, these files don’t represent true namespaces that can isolate the method from ...
