Helpers methods not available

[joseluistorres]

Hi there,

I'm currently testing the s3_multipart implementation in our app but after following all the steps now I can't get any of our (Module) helpers to work, none of them is available, is there something special I need to do to include the helpers again?

Thanks

Rails 4.1.8
Ruby 2.1.1
s3_multipart 0.0.10.6

[joseluistorres]

I had to explicitly call the helpers I need from ApplicationController to make it work:

    helper :bootstrap_flash
    helper :location

I also forked the repo to custom the S3 path I'm writing to and make the input file match our needs and also I added a class to customize the downloadable URL with a expiring token from AWS.
https://github.com/joseluistorres/s3_multipart not sure those changes fits everyone needs.

[michaelkeenan]

I've encountered this too. A few days ago, I added the Spree gem to my app. It couldn't find methods from its frontend_helper. It's been very difficult to track this down, but I eventually isolated it to the inclusion of the s3_multipart gem. When s3_multipart is included, it breaks Spree; when it's not, Spree is fine.

I'm having trouble figuring out what s3_multipart is doing to break helpers, though. Jose, did you ever find that out? I could also remove s3_multipart from my app, but I'd prefer not to (I include it as a backup option for my users if they have trouble with FineUploader).

[michaelkeenan]

I've figured this out, mostly. s3_multipart generates a file: /app/uploaders/multipart/[object]_uploader.rb

This file's first line will be:

class ItemUploader < ApplicationController

It's this line, or this class being created in this way, that breaks the helpers. If you change it to this, the helpers work, and s3_multipart still works:

class ItemUploader < ActionController::Base

I don't know exactly why this works, but it seems to work.

[joseluistorres]

Oh @michaelkeenan sorry for delay, no I couldn' figure it out I had to manually add each helper to make it work, I'll try your workaround

[joseluistorres]

it worked for me too! 👍 👯 thanks @michaelkeenan!

[michaelkeenan]

You're welcome! :)