EJS View Helpers in Express

[Jake Smith (jakefolio)]

I try to use a view helper in express, utilizing EJS, and I keep
getting the following error:
500 ReferenceError: input_field_tag is not defined

What do I need to do to make the view helpers usable?

// Configure App

app.configure(function(){
app.register('.html', require('ejs'));
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.set('view options', {
layout: 'layout.html'
});
app.use(express.bodyDecoder());
app.use(express.cookieDecoder());
app.use(express.session());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.compiler({ src: __dirname + '/public', enable:
['less'] }));
app.use(app.router);
});

[tjholowaychuk]

on a side note you can drop layout: 'layout.html' since that is
implied by the register you did.

but what you need to do is call app.helpers({ input_field_tag:
function(){} })

which you can call several times, it should keep merging them in

On Dec 17, 9:22 am, "Jake Smith (jakefolio)" <jake.smit...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Jake Smith (jakefolio)]

That adds an empty helper, but EJS has already built in view helpers
which I get errors on.

- Jake

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

im not sure what you are talking about. Can you show me? which ejs library? if it is mine, then no there are no extra helpers, it works the same as any other template engine which supports Express, "helpers" are just locals that happen to be functions.

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[Jake Smith (jakefolio)]

I'm trying to use these view helpers:
http://code.google.com/p/embeddedjavascript/wiki/ViewHelpers

Anytime I try to use them I get a reference error in express. Doing
what tjholowaychuk said to do just creates a blank helper and returns
undefined.

- Jake

On Dec 17, 12:53 pm, "vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]" <t...@vision-

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[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

oh, that library sucks, if you use stuff like that IMO you might as well just not use a template engine at all really

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