rails 4 use application helpers inside initializers

Question

Is it possible to include / use Application Helper methods inside of an config/initializers/browser_blocker.rb?

I am using the browser gem to detect and b

Answer 1

Ofcourse you can but that's bad idea, i agree with that that logic supposed to somewhere in app but sometime you have to deal with it. I am saying this because you can block the request before old_browser request gets it and load rails stack.

Anyway, this is how can you can do it

Rails.configuration.middleware.use Browser::Middleware do
  self.class.send(:include,ApplicationHelper)
   redirect_to :controller => 'error', :action => 'browser-upgrade-required' unless    browser_is_supported?
end