I'm pretty sure these private methods will all be publicly available in the views. I know that they will clutter the namespace and cause potential naming conflicts. One option would be to at least prefix them with `fa_`. A better solution IMO would be to break these out in a way that they won't clutter the namespace. I'd suggest defining a class within the `IconHelper` module to help with this. [Here's an example of this approach](https://github.com/railscasts/383-uploading-to-amazon-s3/blob/master/gallery-jquery-fileupload/app/helpers/upload_helper.rb).