Meteor - Passing a jade helper into a helper function - meteor

Question

I'm trying to populate a list with a dataset and set the selected option with a helper function that compares the current data with another object's data (the 2 objects are linked)
I made the same type of list population with static variables:
Jade-
select(name='status')
option(value='Newly Acquired' selected='{{isCurrentState "Newly Acquired"}}') Newly Acquired
option(value='Currently In Use' selected='{{isCurrentState "Currently In Use"}}') Currently In Use
option(value='Not In Use' selected='{{isCurrentState "Not In Use"}}') Not In Use
option(value='In Storage' selected='{{isCurrentState "In Storage"}}') In Storage
Coffeescript-
"isCurrentState" : (state) ->
return #status == state
This uses a helper isCurrentState to match a given parameter to the same object that my other code is linked to so I know that part works
The code I'm trying to get to work is :
Jade-
select.loca(name='location')
each locations
option(value='#{siteName}' selected='{{isCurrentLocation {{siteName}} }}') #{siteName}
Coffeescript-
"isCurrentLocation": (location) ->
return #locate == location
All the other parts are functioning 100%, but the selected part is not
I've also tried changing the way I entered the selected='' part in a manner of ways such as:
selected='{{isCurrentLocation "#{siteName}" }}'
selected='{{isCurrentLocation "#{siteName} }}'
selected='{{isCurrentLocation {{siteName}} }}'
selected='#{isCurrentLocation "{{siteName}}" }'
selected='#{isCurrentLocation {{siteName}} }'
selected='#{isCurrentLocation #{siteName} }'
Is what I'm trying to do even possible?
Is there a better way of achieving this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
UPDATE:
Thanks #david-weldon for the quick reply, i've tried this out a bit and realised that I wasn't exactly clear in what I was trying to accomplish in my question.
I have a template "update_building" created with a parameter( a buidling object) with a number of attributes, one of which is "locate".
Locations is another object with a number of attributes as well, one of which is "siteName". One of the siteName == locate and thus i need to pass in the siteName from locations to match it to the current building's locate attribute
Though it doesn't work in the context I want to use it definitely pointed me in a direction I didn't think of. I am looking into moving the parent template(The building) date context as a parameter into the locations template and using it from within the locations template. This is easily fixable in normal HTML spacebars with:
{{>locations parentDataContext/variable}}
Something like that in jade would easily solve this

Answer 1

Short answer
selected='{{isCurrentLocation siteName}}'
Long answer
You don't really need to pass the current location because the helper should know it's own context. Here's a simple (tested) example:
jade
template(name='myTemplate')
select.location(name='location')
each locations
option(value=this selected=isCurrentLocation) #{this}
coffee
LOCATIONS = [
'Newly Acquired'
'Currently In Use'
'Not In Use'
'In Storage'
]
Template.myTemplate.helpers
locations: LOCATIONS
isCurrentLocation: ->
#toString() is Template.instance().location.get()
Template.myTemplate.onCreated ->
#location = new ReactiveVar LOCATIONS[1]

Answer 2

I looked into the datacontexts some more and ended up making the options that populate the select into a different template and giving that template a helper, accessing the template's parent's data context and using that to determine which location the building had saved in it so that I could set that option to selected
Jade-
template(name="location_building_option")
option(value='#{siteName}' selected='{{isSelected}}') #{siteName}
Coffeescript -
Template.location_building_option.helpers
'isSelected': ->
parent = Template.parentData(1)
buildSite = parent.locate
return #siteName == buildSite
Thanks #david-weldon, Your answer helped me immensely to head in the right direction