In Rails 5+ you can access a helper from a controller using the helpers method:

# Inside a controller action
helpers.link_to 'Foo', foo_path

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In older Rails versions you can use view_context instead:

# Inside a controller action
view_context.link_to 'Foo', foo_path

Rails: Accessing helper methods from a controller