How does Rails View Helper work

I recently came across a tricky situation related to rails view helpers.
The situation is like follows-

I am having a controller as

Feature1::Feature1.1::Feature1.1.1Controller

.
The

Feature1.1

also includes other controllers like

Feature1.1.2Controller

Feature1.1.3Controller

...

So ofcourse related view helpers in folder

app/helpers/feature1/feature1.1/...

Now the real problem I am facing is that a few helpers for

feature1.1

includes the same method name

method1

with related definition.

I was wondering how rails identifies all these helpers as I am noticing that the

method1

i.e. being called in a view for the controller

feature1.1.1

is using the definition of the

method1

i.e. written for the controller

feature1.1.2

.

So does rails consider all helper modules defined in one folder as one?

In a view

feature1/feature1.1/feature1.1.1/index

I am making a method call for

method1

.

I am using

rails3

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Answer Source

I did some research and would like to share some additional info. As per @slowjack2k mentioned, view helpers are included by rails as a default behavior. But my question was about the situation of same method names across multiple helpers. I found this article to be useful in this scenario. Though it explains the behavior for Rails 4 but I found it behaves in the same fashion for Rails 3.2.2.

I will summarize the article -

If there will be any conflict in the same names of methods in different helper modules, rails will use method from latter file (alphabetically)

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