Hi,
You should require dependencies of an engine before initialization, for
example in lib/my_engine/engine.rb file:
require 'other_engine/engine'
require 'yet_another_engine/engine'
moduleMyEngine
class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
end
end
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Michael Schuerig
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
> I have an engine that consolidates code used in several in-house
> applications. For some of its functionality, this engine depends on
> other, third-party engines. These other engines are declared as runtime
> dependencies in my engine's gemspec.
>
> Now, when an application using my engine starts up, the engine itself as
> well as the other engines it depends on are added to the loadpath. Also,
> asset paths for my engine are added. However, asset paths for engine
> dependencies are not added. That's as much as I expected. So, I was
> hoping that if I explicitly load the engines I depend on in an
> initializer in my engine, they would be picked up for their asset paths.
> But apparently, that's already too late, then.
>
> So, what this comes to is, that in an application using my own engine, I
> need to declare that dependency in the app's Gemfile. On top of that, I
> also need to declare all the transitive engine dependencies. I'd rather
> not do that.
>
> I'm wondering, did I miss some nice declarative way to say that an
> engine depends on other engines? Or is this a limitation in the current
> implementation?
>
> Michael
>
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