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JP Silvashy
JP Silvashy

Reputation: 48475

Properly loading ruby modules in Rails

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, I have a file in lib/acts_as_votable.rb, it's just a votable system for the app. 

module ActsAsVotable

end

module ActiveRecord
  class Base
    class << self
      cattr_accessor :votable

      def acts_as_votable
        has_many :votes, :as => :voteable
      end

      def votable?
        method_defined? :votes
      end
    end

    def votable?
      self.class.send(:method_defined?, :votes)
    end
  end
end

But it seems that the module never loads:

undefined local variable or method `acts_as_votable' for #<Class:0x00000101796d80>

What would be the proper way to load modules?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 606

Answers (2)

robertwbradford
robertwbradford

Reputation: 6585

Not sure that the OP's desired functionality is related to configuration. To load files within /lib you can add the following to /config/application.rb:

config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib/)

Upvotes: 0

Daniel O&#39;Hara
Daniel O&#39;Hara

Reputation: 13428

You may put your extensions in the config/initializers directory, so they will be preloaded by Rails automatically.

Upvotes: 2

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