Rails - Jan 2006 - question on when ruby classes are refreshed

Hi,

 

I noticed that classes present in app/controller, helper, models and
views are all change aware. (The name for this escapes me). I mean if
you change a certain controller, these changes are immediately available
(development) without restarting any webserver. 

 

Q? how is this behavior called?

 

I have some custom ruby classes not part of ruby on rails. Any changes
made to these custom classes are not showing the same behavior. How can
I extend this dynamic change behavior to my custom classes. 

 

Eg I have an extra folder of classes present in app/mycustomfolder which
I would like to have this dynamic behavior.

 

Thanks for any help,


Cheers,

Tiele

 

 

 

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On 1/18/06, Defrancq, Tiele <Tiele.Defrancq@bvdep.com>
wrote:
> I noticed that classes present in app/controller, helper, models and views
> are all change aware. (The name for this escapes me). I mean if you change
a
> certain controller, these changes are immediately available (development)
> without restarting any webserver.
>
> Q? how is this behavior called?
>
> I have some custom ruby classes not part of ruby on rails. Any changes made
> to these custom classes are not showing the same behavior. How can I extend
> this dynamic change behavior to my custom classes.
>
> Eg I have an extra folder of classes present in app/mycustomfolder which I
> would like to have this dynamic behavior.
>
This behavior is turned on in the development environment.  You can
control it by editing config/environments/development.rb

If you ''require'' your library in environment.rb or boot.rb, it
will
only be loaded once. If you use ''require_dependency'' instead,
it will
behave like the other classes do.