Rails - Mar 2011 - How to include the mail_to helper inside of a controller

Hello, in my controller I need to format a json object using
simple_format, which is why I need to include several helpers.

So far I have the following in my controller:

      include ApplicationHelper
      include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper
      include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper

This works great for simple_format, problem is when the
comment.content has a email address, rails trys to do a mailto link
which breaks, showing the following error in the logs: "NoMethodError
(undefined method `mail_to'' for...."


Any ideas on how to add it in? I tried adding   include
ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper but that did not work. I get this error
when I include the UrlHelper: "undefined local variable or method
`controller"

Thank you


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On 1 March 2011 18:41, Inverted
<brett-CBMGfOASXPM8hbakYQNKQ0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello, in my controller I need to format a json object using
> simple_format, which is why I need to include several helpers.
>
> Any ideas on how to add it in?
Coincidentally, I had to resort to using number_to_currency in a
controller the other day (okay, I didn''t *have* to - I decided it
easier to do it that way for the task I had to do :-)

A quick Google for "number_to_currency controller" (now I''m
giving
away my Google-fu?!) gleaned this:
http://lojic.com/blog/2007/07/27/using-helpers-inside-controllers-in-ruby-on-rails/

..and for my quick and "I feel dirty" use, I settled for the solution:
Object.new.extend(ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper).number_to_currency(my_number)

HTH

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Pavling, thanks for the repy! I''ve been stuck on this bug all
morning...

So I''m trying to understand how to get this working based on your 
suggestion.

Here''s the flow:

My controller calls html_format(comment.content) which is inside of the 
application helper

html_format, then calls simple_format. This only errors when there is an 
email in comment.content. If there is a link or just plain text it works 
just fine.

Given that, can you help me understand your suggestion on how to resolve? 
Thank you!

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Ok turns out it''s not simple_format, I forgot that I was using
auto_link.
Removing auto_link prevent the error. So now I need to figure out what I 
need to include in the controller to user auto_link

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