Link_to_remote from Controller

Rails
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Hello–

I¹m using Builder::XmlMarkup to create a menu tree and need to have some
gee-whizzy javascript to make the menus expand, fade, twirl and dance.
Ok,
maybe not the last bit. Anyhow, because the html is generated mainly
through
code like:

xm.li(:id=> ³menu_#{unique_id}², :class => �menu¹){
xm << link_to_function(�menu name¹, �function_name¹)
}

Unfortunately, link_to_function is in a helper and not accessible to my
controller code. Anyone know how better to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Steve