Historically, helpers can be and have been included in controllers by some, as they are modules. As you said, "any methods in there are intended *primarily* for the views"- primarily being the operative word. I would think moving them would hurt more than it would help. In addition, right now autoloading works under the premise that everything under the autoloaded directory has the same fully-qualified path to the constant as the relative path under one of the autoload directories. So, you'd then want to add complexity to that to say when autoloading, ensure that if there is another autoloaded directory under that directory, then ignore that directory when autoloading the higher level autoloaded directory. That would get too messy. The alternative would mean adding a Helpers module for each helper which would be cumbersome and break things.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:38:34 AM UTC-5, Jeff Cohen wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I know this would break a long-standing tradition, but I really think the > "app/helpers" folder should really by "app/views/helpers". > > I think it helps communicate that any methods in there are intended > primarily for the views to use. > > I'm not sure how big a job it would be to make this change, but I'm ready > to investigate if the core team agrees that this would be something nice > for Rails 4. > > Thanks! > Jeff > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/EC4Vk1jjGgwJ. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
