From 917423d664038d6791738a73ad1446437dbb71df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:42:34 +0000
Subject: Provide a helper proxy to access helper methods from outside views.
 Closes #10839 [Josh Peek]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@9234 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'actionpack/lib/action_controller')

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb
index 81b8ff9753..9188f94f37 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/helpers.rb
@@ -167,6 +167,15 @@ module ActionController #:nodoc:
         attrs.flatten.each { |attr| helper_method(attr, "#{attr}=") }
       end
 
+      # Provides a proxy to access helpers methods from outside the view.
+      def helpers
+        unless @helper_proxy
+          @helper_proxy = ActionView::Base.new
+          @helper_proxy.extend master_helper_module
+        else
+          @helper_proxy
+        end
+      end
 
       private
         def default_helper_module!
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