begin work on helpers

app/controllers/helper_controller.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class HelperController < ApplicationController
+
+  def helper
+    @helper = params[:id]
+  end
+
+end

app/helpers/helper_helper.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+module HelperHelper
+end

app/views/helper/_fb_name.html.erb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<% content_for :helper_description do %>
+  Renders the name of the user specified, optionally linked to his or her profile.
+<% end %>

app/views/helper/helper.html.erb

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<div id="header">
+  <h1>Helper: <%= @helper %></h1>
+  <%= yield :helper_description %>
+</div>
+
+<div id='helper'>
+  <%= render :partial => @helper %>
+</div>
+

app/views/shared/_sidebar.html.erb

@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 <ul id="sidebar-items">
 
+  <li>
+    <h3>Helper Methods</h3>
+    <ul class="links">
+      <li><%= link_to 'fb_name', helper_path('fb_name') %></li>
+      <li><%= link_to 'fb_profile_pic', '' %></li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+
   <li>
     <h3>Facebooker Links</h3>
     <ul class="links">

config/routes.rb

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
   map.root :controller => "home"
 
+  map.helper '/helpers/:id', :controller => 'helper', :action => 'helper'
+
   map.with_options :controller => 'connect' do |r|
     r.logout '/connect/logout', :action => 'logout'
     r.login '/connect/login', :action => 'login'

public/stylesheets/application.css

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ a {
 }
 
 
-#getting-started {
+#getting-started, #helper {
   border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
   margin-top: 25px;
   padding-top: 15px;

test/functional/helper_controller_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class HelperControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
+  # Replace this with your real tests.
+  test "the truth" do
+    assert true
+  end
+end

test/unit/helpers/helper_helper_test.rb

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+require 'test_helper'
+
+class HelperHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
+end