View helpers in rabl template throws 'undefined method' if used with gon

[arnabc]

My rabl templates are working fine if I use it outside gon for example as a response to XHR requests, but if I use the same template with gon it throws error in view helper methods used in the rabl templates. In Rabl, using Rails view helpers are allowed, so it seems that gon might be causing some issue in there, is it an issue with the view context ?

Here's my sample rable template:

attributes :id, :name, :created_at
node(:time_ago) { |m| distance_of_time_in_words(m.created_at, Time.now) }

There seems to be an issue filed in the Rabl repository related to this problem:
nesquena/rabl#147

Thanks,
Arnab

[gazay]

Hello! Sorry for big delay, I did whole refactoring of gon this month. So I fixed this problem with including ActionView::Helpers into Rails::Engine. Now it's only in my refactoring branch - 7a4f50f
But soon I plan to merge it in master. What do you think? I checked that this including not affects Rabl functionality by running Rabl's specs with included helpers.

[mull]

Using Rabl 0.8.6 (latest stable) I still have this problem. Is this issue really solved?

child :whatever do 
  [root_url]
end

Throws "undefined method root_url for Rabl::Engine"

[mull]

Sorry.. I should check what repository I am in! :D

[lulalala]

@mull may I ask how you solved it (I am having the same issue)

[mull]

@lulalala I can't quite remember what I changed unfortunately, I know I switched over to RablRails and then back to Rails.. heh! Sorry I can't be of any help.

[asumaran]

I'm getting the same error in the same case using rabl with gon in Rails

undefined local variable or method `this_time' for #Rabl::Engine:0x007febee9f13c0

this_time is located in the application_helper.rb file. any workaround for this?

Update:

I solved including the helper in the controller
include ApplicationHelper
and now everything is working fine

[askl56]

Bumping this thread to see if there is any update on it? @gazay