Ruby on Rails

On Aug 29, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Alexey Muranov wrote:

> Can anybody please explain to me, what kind of methods, except
> before_filters, are appropriate for ApplicationController, and why not
> to put them into some helper?
>
> I have read an interesting blog post about helpers
> http://railspikes.com/2008/8/22/how-to-fix-your-rails-helpers
> where it is explained that the ApplicationHelper is not a good place
> to
> keep the code, but what about ApplicationController?
>
> Alexey.
>

It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I've always heard that anything
that generates HTML belongs in a helper, and anything that marshalls
model instances belongs in a controller.

Walter

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