Plain old Ruby object location in Rails

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Rails n00b question. I am creating a plain old Ruby object in Rails. But I am not sure if there is a standard location in the app that I should put this object.

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the Tin Man · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 21:21:44Z

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Several choices, but the lib directory is the most common.

If you need to initialize the code, the most common place is config/initializers.

So you might have:

lib/mystuff.rb

and:

config/initializers/mystuff.rb
lib/mystuff.rb

contains your ruby code.

config/initializers/mystuff.rb

contains code that initializes your stuff, whatever Ruby files that are found in config/initializers are run when Rails boots up.

edited Dec 10, 2012 at 21:21

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covard Over a year ago

So to access it would I just add require 'lib/my_object.rb'

tadman Over a year ago

Remember that only things in app and config/routes.rb are automatically reloaded between requests. For other things you'll need to restart your server for the changes to take effect.

RadBrad Over a year ago

require 'my_object' should suffice

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