Rails - May 2006 - Custom command line libraries for controllers and rails

I have a library that is basically used on the command-line.  I am 
trying to fit it in for my rails application.  So far it works, but I 
was worried about how rails does caching or anything else.  Basically, 
is this an ok approach.

So far, I put the library in RAILS_APP/lib/bot.rb

And ''bot.rb'' contains a class ''VM''.

I have a controller:

BotController..

And I put this at the top:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../../lib/bot''

And then I just allocate an instance in one my controller methods and 
that is it.

Of course, there is one instance per request which is a little 
wasteful.  But, that is my initial approach thus far.

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