Proposal: Provide an easy way to register view helpers

[fgrehm]

We should have an easier way to register view helpers than

Harbor::ViewContext.send(:include, CaptainsBlog::Helpers)

I'd be happy to have that as a simple shortcut on config/default.rb but we might not have required the helper file yet at "configuration time" or we would need to have autoloading in place for it to work.

config.helpers.register CaptainsBlog::Helpers

We could also have a "helper module" that sends the include:

module Harbor::ViewHelper
  def self.extended(base)
    Harbor::ViewContext.send :include, base
  end
end

module CapitainsBlog::Helpers
  extend Harbor::ViewHelper

  def my_awesome_helper_method
    # ... some crazy code ...
  end
end

Any other thoughts on how can we handle this? Are you guys happy with the current way of doing it?

[sam]

I like config.helpers.register as the underlying mechanics. I do think we should grep /helpers/*.rb and auto-register those files though.

Adding a new helper should be as easy as dropping the file in the right place IMO.

[fgrehm]

We need some kind of convention to make this work, like having helpers defined under AppName::Helpers or just Helpers module so we can figure out from where we should grab the module to include.

Other thoughts?

[sam]

AppName::Helpers works I think.