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