On 2 Mar 2009, at 12:36, Max Williams wrote:
> > Can anyone set me straight on this? > > I often put files in lib which add new modules or monkey patch > existing > classes etc. These always need to be explicitly required in my > environment file. That all works, but one of my colleagues believes > that everything in lib should be loaded automatically, and that the > requires should be necessary. This definitely isn't the case - if i > remove the require then i dont get the extra functionality. > > Is something going wrong for me? Or are lib files not meant to be > loaded automatically? As far as I know they are not loaded automatically in the sense that rails won't just load them without any intervention from you. They are in the sense that if you say MyModule then rails will try and load my_module.rb in lib (among other places). This of course doesn't work if what your file contains is a monkey patch. Perhaps these two different meanings of automatically are what are clouding the issue (and on top of all that there's rails 2.2's 'load everything on startup' mode which may or may not grab things from /lib - I can't remember) Fred > > > thanks > max > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
