Rails 3 reload! broken - potential fixes?

luislavena · January 20, 2011, 4:49pm

Crossposted from

In Rails 3.03 the reload! method in the console seems to be broken. If
your app gets large, this becomes annoying because you have to wait for
the console to load a lot.

There are solutions proposed:
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3822-reload-doesnt-reload

And a seeming fix in edge:

github.com

rails/rails/blob/435bccda930e4dde3d0fafca958e1c8330b4c3ca/railties/lib/rails/console/app.rb

require 'active_support/all'
require 'active_support/test_case'
require 'action_controller'

# work around the at_exit hook in test/unit, which kills IRB
Test::Unit.run = true if Test::Unit.respond_to?(:run=)

# reference the global "app" instance, created on demand. To recreate the
# instance, pass a non-false value as the parameter.
def app(create=false)
  @app_integration_instance = nil if create
  @app_integration_instance ||= new_session do |sess|
    sess.host! "www.example.com"
  end
end

# create a new session. If a block is given, the new session will be yielded
# to the block before being returned.
def new_session
  app = Rails.application

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However, I have not had any luck with any of these patches or with the
new edge Reloader class. Has anyone? Am I missing some obvious
workaround or is there a reason I should not be using the console as
much?

MBP OSX 10.6.6 with 2.4GHz and 4GB RAM. Not using RVM. Ruby 1.9.2.
Rails 3.0.3.

Thank you for your help.