If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add a method to your module that makes them available for you views like so...
#in lib/my_module_name.rb module MyModuleName def my_method_for_views #logic... end def self.included(base) base.send :helper_method, :my_method_for_views if base.respond_to? :helper_method end end
Just finishing up brewing up some fresh ground comments...