[Constant Reloading] Where is the right place to put MyCustomFormBuilder?

Rails
1

I have a custom form builder for my application:

file location: /lib/ruby/app_form_builder.rb

class ActionView::Helpers::AppFormBuilder <
ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder
include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper
include ActionView::Context

def foo
‘bar’
end
end

I am requiring it in an initializer:

require “#{Rails.root}/lib/ruby/app_form_builder.rb”
ActionView::Base.default_form_builder =
ActionView::Helpers::AppFormBuilder

This works, but I have to restart the server on every change. I was
reading
the Constant Guide
http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html,
but didn’t find the right way to made this file to be automaticaly
reloaded. I tried to put this in /app/helpers forlder and making it
default
in application.rb, but I got “unitialized constant” error.

Also, I would like to know if Rails can reload code that modify native
Ruby
classes:

class String
def do_something
‘something’
end
end

2

On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 11:51:39 AM UTC, Andrey Nering wrote:

reading the Constant Guide
http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html,
but didn’t find the right way to made this file to be automaticaly
reloaded. I tried to put this in /app/helpers forlder and making it default
in application.rb, but I got “unitialized constant” error.

require is never a good idea if you want something to be reloaded.
You’ve
also got a clash between the class name and it’s location on disk -
having
the class just be AppFormBuilder in lib/app_form_builder.rb should work.

Lastly if you look into the bowels of action view, the
default_form_builder
method looks like this

def default_form_builder
builder = ActionView::Base.default_form_builder
builder.respond_to?(:constantize) ? builder.constantize : builder
end

So if you set default_form_builder to be a “AppFormBuilder” then that
should allow it to be reloaded.

This can’t be done. code reloading is done by removing the class/module
(using remove_const) and then letting it be loaded again, which wouldn’t
work for a class like String

Fred

3

I couldn’t make this work with “default_form_builder” method.

My solution was using a custom “form_for” method:

application_helper.rb

def app_form_for(object, options = {})
options.merge!(builder: AppFormBuilder)
form_for object, options do |f|
yield f
end
end

And adding the Builder folder on autoload_paths.

@Frederick C.: Thank you for your help!

Em quinta-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2015 10:28:32 UTC-2, Frederick C.
escreveu: