Rails - Nov 2008 - trying to understand file loading, dependencies, etc. in rails

I''m developing on Windows, using InstantRails and i''ve run
into a
problem.

My development workflow, till now, has been as follows:
1. start the server: ruby script/server --debug
2. run my application by invoking a controller from the browser -
observe behaviour
3. edit source file to fix bug/change behaviour
4. save source file
5. goto #2

This has worked really well for me, until recently.

The bulk of the code that I am working on is in a file
(''foo.rb'') that
is in the model directory but that is not associated with a specific
model. It declares a certain constant that I would like to be able to
access from my controller. So - in my controller, I have required
foo.rb (require "foo.rb").

This seems to have broken my nice comfortable workflow. Now - when I
make changes in foo.rb and save foo.rb, the changes are not picked up
and have no effect on program execution. I need restart the server in
order to pick up the changes.

I assume that somehow, requiring foo.rb in my controller prevents it
from being reloaded automatically as it had been previously. Is there
a way to force foo.rb to be reloaded after a change? Other suggestions
for how to get aorund this?

Many thanks.
Yoram
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On Nov 27, 5:08 pm, "yber...-uAjRD0nVeow@public.gmane.org"
<yber...-uAjRD0nVeow@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I''m developing on Windows, using InstantRails and i''ve
run into a
> problem.
>
> My development workflow, till now, has been as follows:
> 1. start the server: ruby script/server --debug
> 2. run my application by invoking a controller from the browser -
> observe behaviour
> 3. edit source file to fix bug/change behaviour
> 4. save source file
> 5. goto #2
>
> This has worked really well for me, until recently.
>
> The bulk of the code that I am working on is in a file
(''foo.rb'') that
> is in the model directory but that is not associated with a specific
> model. It declares a certain constant that I would like to be able to
> access from my controller. So - in my controller, I have required
> foo.rb (require "foo.rb").
>
See what I wrote on this: http://www.spacevatican.org/2008/9/28/required-or-not

Fred
> This seems to have broken my nice comfortable workflow. Now - when I
> make changes in foo.rb and save foo.rb, the changes are not picked up
> and have no effect on program execution. I need restart the server in
> order to pick up the changes.
>
> I assume that somehow, requiring foo.rb in my controller prevents it
> from being reloaded automatically as it had been previously. Is there
> a way to force foo.rb to be reloaded after a change? Other suggestions
> for how to get aorund this?
>
> Many thanks.
> Yoram
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