Rails 3.1: Better way to expose an engine's helper within the client app

Question

I have found a few articles addressing the issue of helpers within an engine not being accessible to the consuming (parent) application. To make sure we are all on the same

Answer 1

You can create an initializer to accomplish this like so:

module MyEngine
  class Engine < Rails::Engine
    initializer 'my_engine.action_controller' do |app|
      ActiveSupport.on_load :action_controller do
        helper MyEngine::ImportantHelper
      end
    end
  end
end