How to require some lib files from anywhere

Question

I'll explain my situation.

Here is my file tree in my rails application :

lib/my_module.rb

require 'my_module/my_file'  module My_module  end 

lib/my_module/my_file.rb

class Tweetag::Collector    (...) end 

I've made a ruby script that I've put in config/jobs/

I really don't understand how I am supposed to require the file my_file.rb in this file.

require '../../my_module/my_file.rb' 

It gives me `require': cannot load such file

Same error with just require 'my_module' which is what I do in my controllers...

Someone here to explain to me ? Thanks a lot

Answer 1

You can autoinclude everything under the lib folderand avoid these problems:

Type this your file in config/application.rb

config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/lib/**/"] 

Answer 2

If you want to require only a specific file then, do something relative to Rails root like this

for example: --  lib/plan.rb  module Plan  ...some code... end 

and if you want to require it only in some model, say app/models/user.rb

do in user model

require "#{Rails.root}/lib/plan"  class User < ActiveRecord::Base   include Plan end 

if you want it to be available everywhere

one solution is given by @VecchiaSpugna

or you can create a ruby file in config/initializers folder

and require all file over there one by one

OR

try this  require '../../my_module/my_file'  instead of   require '../../my_module/my_file.rb' 

You don't need to specify extension for a file in require.