T_P wrote:
> how do I access them in controllers and views? :-/

They are available in views already.

For a method to be available both in controllers and views, define it as 
a method in the ApplicationController instead:

private
  def my_helper(foo)
    return "#{foo}!!"
  end
  helper_method :my_helper

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