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I just did something in a Rails project that made me very happy -- I wrote a lot of helper methods. I had a whole mess of ERb managing an index page with pagination, sorting, quick search, and so on, all of which was going to need to be more or less duplicated for several controllers. This promised to be annoying, so I started to push some of the HTML/ERb code up to helper methods with an eye toward reusing them. Eventually, I was able to convert the whole thing to a series of helper methods -- the view page is just a single line calling the top-level helper methods. And I smiled.