I'm a novice at extension authoring, but in my experience the code
gets reloaded every second refresh. No explanation why that'd be
(Chrome + 0.9.1 + Mongrel), but it works for me.
- Jeff
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Josh French <j...@digitalpulp.com> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Wes Gamble wrote:
>
> Are Radiant custom extension controllers, models, etc. supposed to reload
> between each request like regular Rails objects in development mode or not?
>
> Rails sees Radiant extensions as plugins, not engines or native application
> entities. They won't get reloaded unless you take steps to make it happen.
> If you take a look at the PageFactory extension, I'm doing something along
> those lines:
>
> Dir["#{path}/*_page_factory.rb"].each do |page_factory|
> if page_factory =~ %r{/([^/]+)\.rb}
> require_dependency page_factory
> ActiveSupport::Dependencies.explicitly_unloadable_constants <<
> $1.camelize
> end
> end
>
> I'm 1) registering my own classes with ActiveSupport's dependency mechanism,
> and 2) telling ActiveSupport that these need to get reloaded between
> requests.
> Hope that helps,
> j
