Hi I have a problem with RoR automatically reloading controllers and such: I have a component, I want to configure using a "Configuration" class. I have this class at "components/my_component/ configuration.rb". Using the class works like the following: MyComponent::Configuration.settings[:foo] = ''bar'' # etc. Then, in my config/environment.rb, I include the file "config/ my_component_config.rb" which contains the configuration setting code that looks like the snippet above. This works pretty well but for one gotcha: In development mode, RoR seemingly reloads all the files that are "implicitely" included, i.e. where RoR catches the "class not found" error Ruby throws and guesses the class'' path by the namespace and classname used. This means, on the second call of a page the configuration class is reloaded and all my changes to it are discarded. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Regards Manuel Holtgrewe