Ruby Forum Rails Engines development > code_paths (was: Re: Rails.plugins[:plugin_name] comments and patch)

I should add.. this fix (self.code_paths instead of
Rails[:plugin_name].code_paths) seemed to make it not crash and did 
store
the path in Rails.plugins[:plugin_name].  But, it just didn't work.  I
eventually traced it down to the fact that rails adds plugin paths 
*before*
engines is loaded.

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb ln ~60

    # Sequentially step through all of the available initialization
routines,
    # in order:
    #
    # * #check_ruby_version
    # * #set_load_path
    # * #require_frameworks
    # * #set_autoload_paths
    # * add_plugin_load_paths    ********** plugin code_paths are added 
to
Dependencies.load_paths here
    # * #load_environment
    # * #initialize_encoding
    # * #initialize_database
    # * #initialize_logger
    # * #initialize_framework_logging
    # * #initialize_framework_views
    # * #initialize_dependency_mechanism
    # * #initialize_whiny_nils
    # * #initialize_temporary_directories
    # * #initialize_framework_settings
    # * #add_support_load_paths
    # * #load_plugins                  ********* but plugins are loaded 
here
    # * #load_observers
    # * #initialize_routing
    # * #after_initialize
    # * #load_application_initializers
    def process

Actually, this seems like a rails bug in itself.  Or maybe it's that way 
by
design?  In either case, it will break your code_paths done in a 
plugin's
initialize.  Here's a patch for engines loader (again which doesn't seem 
to
really belong in engines.. but it already has the loader overridden..)

vendor/plugins/engines/lib/engines/plugin/loader.rb

module Engines
  class Plugin
    class Loader < Rails::Plugin::Loader
+      def load_plugins
+        super
+        add_plugin_load_paths
+      end
+
      protected
        def register_plugin_as_loaded(plugin)
          super plugin
          Engines.plugins << plugin
          register_to_routing(plugin)
        end

        # Registers the plugin's controller_paths for the routing 
system.
        def register_to_routing(plugin)
          initializer.configuration.controller_paths +=
plugin.select_existing_paths(:controller_paths)
          initializer.configuration.controller_paths.uniq!
        end
    end
  end
end

-Andrew