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NullVoxPopuli
NullVoxPopuli

Reputation: 65093

Is there a way to organize my model files so that ruby/rails doesn't get confused?

So, my list of models in app/models is getting kinda long, and I'd like to organize it.

but, I'm aware of Ruby/Rails' naming convention for folders / sub classes.

i.e. 

Object::MyObject::SubObject

would look like this:

object.rb
object/
-- my_object.rb
-- my_object/
-- -- sub_object.rb

at least to my understanding

but, what I want to do is group classes that are related to each other or interact a lot.

Here is what I would like to do (as an example, these aren't my actual classes):

app/models/
-- library_item.rb     # LibraryItem < ActiveRecord::Base
-- library_items/
-- -- book.rb          # Book < LibraryItem
-- -- book/
-- -- -- page.rb       # Page < ActiveRecord::Base
-- -- -- cover.rb      # Cover < ActiveRecord::Base
-- -- magazine.rb      # Magazine < LibraryItem
-- -- magazine/
-- -- -- shiny_page.rb # ShinyPage < ActiveRecord::Base

is this possible? I know it is with Java, but Ruby and Rails have a very specific way of doing things, and I haven't ever read anything much about organization of large projects.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 123

Answers (1)

Mori
Mori

Reputation: 27779

For Rails to automatically find these models, the class names need to match the file path, e.g.:

class LibraryItem::Book::Page < ActiveRecord::Base

Personally I prefer to keep my model hierarchy mostly flat so I that I can just type Page instead of LibraryItem::Book::Page. You can accomplish both of these things -- a file hierarchy plus short model names -- by explicitly loading your models, perhaps in an initializer.

Upvotes: 3

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