render_widget helper collision

[pierpaolofrasa-twt]

In our project we are exploring using apotomo alongside another library. Unfortunately, both expose a helper method with the same name, "render_widget". As soon as I add the has_widgets declaration into any controller, the render_widget helper of the other library gets overridden by apotomo's definition, which breaks everything.

It is of course a general problem with Rails helpers that they all end up polluting the same namespace, and somewhat ironically Nick blogged about this two years ago. :)

I wonder if there is any sort of workaround, or if it could be envisioned to rename the helper into something at least somewhat more namespaced ("widget" is a quite generic term).

I realise that this is kind of a bold feature request, but I think that in the spirit of that original blog post such an issue ought to be addressed at least in some way.

[apotonick]

That sucks indeed. I hate helpers.

In future versions of Cells (and Apotomo) you will have a more object-oriented access to the API, e.g. in views you will have an instance of your widget.

apotomo_widget(:song).show

I can have a quick look at how/when we import the helpers into the global namespace, I have an idea for an easy work-around.