Rails - Jun 2005 - innapropriate automatic requiring of helpers with controller inheritance

I have built a site with 2 sets of controllers, site and admin. Site 
controllers inherit from SiteController, admin from Admin:BaseController (in 
a sub folder). Both SiteController and Admin:BaseController inherit from 
ApplicationController.

What i''ve found by accident is that helper methods placed in 
admin/base_helper.rb are also available to controllers (their views) that 
inherit from SiteController and vis-versa. It looks like all helpers are 
available to all views.

I''d like to have a clean inheritance in my helpers that matches that of
my
controllers so that some are shared by the whole site, some by the whol 
admin section, or some for a specific site/admin controller etc. 

Is this the correct behaviour in Rails or could it be a bug? How do other 
people organise and use their helpers in this type of situation?

David North


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On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:47 AM, David North wrote:
> What i''ve found by accident is that helper methods placed in
admin/
> base_helper.rb are also available to controllers (their views) that  
> inherit from SiteController and vis-versa. It looks like all  
> helpers are available to all views.
Helper behavior now matches your expectation: http:// 
dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1394

Best,
jeremy