How do I use an ActionView::Helper in a Ruby script, outside of Rails?

Question

I am looking to use ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper from a Ruby script. What all do I need to require etc.?

Piscatelli

Answer 1

~> irb
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 > require 'action_view'
 => true 
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 > ActionView::Base.new.number_to_currency 43
 => "$43.00" 

Rahman

Answer 2

As of Rails 3.2.13, you can do the following:

class MyClass
  include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper

  def my_method
    ...
    number_with_precision(number, precision: 2)
    ...
  end
end

You might need to require 'action_view' too.

Edit: This answer is still valid in Rails 4.2.3.

Monatomic

require 'action_view' is what I was missing. Thank you. – Slipover

This was helpful. I think you can skip require 'action_view' if you're running the script via 'rails runner' – Regression