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Custom helpers - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Custom helpers

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- [Instructor] Now that we've learned about some of the useful Rails helpers, it's time to learn how to write your own custom helpers. This is an extremely powerful technique that you're going to be using a lot. Helpers are simply Ruby modules with methods to find inside of them. Whenever we generate a controller, Rails will generate a helper file to match automatically. You can also create your own. The separate file that it creates is just to help keep you organized. All of the helpers in all helper files are available in all of the view templates. It's not like the controllers, where code that's in one controller, isn't accessible in another one. Helpers are useful for a few different things. The first, is that they can be a good place to store code that you're going to need to call often. Remember, don't repeat yourself, D-R-Y. They're also good for complex sections of code that you don't want cluttering up your…

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