As your Rails project grows, you will accumulate a number of small patches. These will usually fix a bug in a gem, or add a method to core classes.
Instead of putting many files into config/initializers, I recommend to group them by gem in lib/ext:
lib/
ext/
factory_girl/
mixin.rb
carrierwave/
change_storage.rb
fix_cache_ids.rb
sanitize_filename_characters.rb
ruby/
range/
covers_range.rb
array/
dump_to_excel.rb
xss_aware_join.rb
enumerable/
collect_hash.rb
natural_sort.rb
string/
to_sort_atoms.rb
rails/
find_by_anything.rb
form_builder.rb
form_for_with_development_errors.rb
Note how all patches for standard library classes are in the ruby folder.
Now add a config/initializers/ext.rb that loads these files:
Dir.glob(Rails.root.join('lib/ext/**/*.rb')).sort.each do |filename|
require filename
end
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2016-06-16 11:36)