How to eager load a single directory with Zeitwerk

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Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0.

Sometimes, a model needs to know all its descendants. They might be organized in a subdirectory:

# Example
app/models/design.rb
app/models/design/light.rb
app/models/design/dark.rb
...

Now imagine the Design class needs to iterate all designs.

To eager load all designs, use this line:

Rails.autoloaders.main.eager_load_dir("#{Rails.root}/app/models/design")

Make sure that app/models/design.rb is not required manually before instructing Rails to autoload it!

Dominik Schöler
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Dominik Schöler
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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2024-11-20 12:06)