Rails - Sep 2006 - Where should I place my own helper classes?

I know this is a newbie question, but where in the rails tree should I
place a my own helper classes? For example, I have a class called
UserSchedule which loads data from different models in order to form a
user''s schedule. Should that go in the models directory? components?


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I would put your UserSchedule class directly in the model directory as
you suggested. Think of the model as containing all the ''business
logic'' of you''re app, not just the ActiveRecord::Base
derivatives.

If later, you end up wanting to share logic between applications, there
are some helpful tips here,
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TheBigPicture, on reusing your
classes between applications. But for a single app, putting classes
directly in model works fine.


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"UserSchedule which loads data from different models in order to form a
user''s schedule"

I put these kind of classes in the controller directory, because you are
loading data from the db

If you just calculate a few vars, i would put it in the model directory, the
good thing is that you can access it from helpers, views, controllers.

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Heri R.
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