You shouldn't really need to call this within a controller. Rails uses a convention called MVC which means that the model, the view, and the controller concerns are all separate to themselves. Here's the wikipedia article on it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller] and here's an entry in the Rails' wiki for it as well [ http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/UnderstandingMVC]. It's a really core convention in rails. distance_of_time_in_words is purely a view concern because it's about output which is the view. The standard way to do this is to render a template [view] instead of constructing a string directly in the controller. Hope that helps.
RSL On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Peter Alvin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > include ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper > > That's what I needed; it worked; thanks!!! > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
