Rails 5 ignoring /lib class?

Question

I've used this method for modals in rails. It works really well, but I've just upgraded to Rails 5 beta3, and now it's not working in production.

I get this error:

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 22ms (ActiveRecord: 0.9ms)  NameError (uninitialized constant ApplicationController::ModalResponder):  app/controllers/application_controller.rb:26:in `respond_modal_with' app/controllers/tools_controller.rb:28:in `new' 

Is my inheritance thrown off with Rails 5?

My class ModalResponder < ActionController::Responder is in /lib and works in development...

Looking for info on changes with rails 5, but sources are limited to my knowledge.

Answer 1

In config/application.rb, change this:

config.autoload_paths << Rails.root.join('lib') 

to this:

config.eager_load_paths << Rails.root.join('lib') 

eager_load_paths will get eagerly loaded in production and on-demand in development. Doing it this way, you don't need to require every file explicitly.

See more info on this answer.

Answer 2

You need to add a 'require' (on application.rb) with your classes inside the lib folder.

Like:

require './lib/someclass'

I recommend you put it inside a Rails plugin.