I have a number of methods that do not create any variables that are needed by the view. Some of these methods are particular to a specific controller, and some need to be shared by several controllers. One thing all these methods do have in common is that they work with the configuration data of a third party software. Reading, writing, and formatting it''s configuration files. So far I''ve just made one module/class for all of these methods and stuck it in /lib. Then in the controllers that need access to them I instiate the class in a before filter. This doesn''t quite seem right, I''m curious if there is a better way? Chris _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails