On 8/29/07, Tekin Suleyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then tried it without specifying the plugin load order (config.plugins > = ['engines', '*']) and there is no error, despite the plugins loading > in the same order. If I explicitly specify the plugin (config.plugins = > ['engines', 'testplugin']), it also works. > > Is this expected behaviour?
Aaaaah. OK. Here's what's happening. To support the config.plugins = %w(engines *) behaviour, the engines plugin actually defers loading of any plugins that weren't specified manually by using the after_initialize mechanism. You're seeing a problem because, when using that star-syntax, at the point where Rails is trying to instantiate your observer your testplugin hasn't been loaded yet. The solution, for the moment, is to just add your observer-containing plugins explicitly to config.plugins - that way they will definitely be available before Rails starts dealing with observers. Another solution would be to call YourObserverClass.instance at the bottom of environment.rb, rather than using config.observers - either will work fine. -- * J * ~ _______________________________________________ Engine-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-users-rails-engines.org
