Ok, so I''ve been going around in circles with something. I have a fairly complex view-related thing that started out as a bunch of helpers. I decided I wanted to make a class out of the thing and make it re-usable so I can use it all over this rather large app. In order to make it re-usable, it needs to have some configuration applied to it for use in different parts of the app. That means it needs to save some configuration data; so there is instance data, so in order to use it through out the life of a particular ajax view, I need to be able to save it in the session. Sooooooo, when I go to try and save this thing in the session, the session needs for me to "require" it so the serialization will work. It isn''t a model, so I can''t just save an id and re-find it in each action, the way you would with a model. I can''t make it an active record model, because models don''t have access to all the helpers that views and helpers have access to. I can''t "require" it because require works on a file, not just a class within a helper file. You see where I''m going here? I seem to have painted myself into a corner with this thing and I don''t know how to get all of the aspects of Rails to come together and let me do what I want to do here. Basically, I need a class that is in a helper file or in some other way has access to all the view-related rails helper stuff (like the ''h()'' function and link_to_remote et. al.). I need to be able to save instances of this thing in the session also, which seems to make it necessary for it to be in its own file so I can "require" it from the Controller file.... Any suggestions? thanks, jp -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---