# :model went where?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/model-went-where/126475>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/model-went-where/126475 "2008-01-18T16:23:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![MohsinHijazee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@MohsinHijazee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MohsinHijazee)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/model-went-where/126475/1 "2008-01-18T16:23:11Z")

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Hello!  
There used to be a way called :model for declaring the models to be  
loaded, but that’s deprecated. Simply removing it works but I am  
curious how and what has changed in Rails 2.02 about it?

Regards,  
Mohsin

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**Author:** ![MohsinHijazee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@MohsinHijazee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MohsinHijazee)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/model-went-where/126475/2 "2008-01-18T18:09:28Z")

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On 18 Jan 2008, at 15:22, MohsinHijazee wrote:

> Hello!  
> There used to be a way called :model for declaring the models to be  
> loaded, but that’s deprecated. Simply removing it works but I am  
> curious how and what has changed in Rails 2.02 about it?  
> It’s been obsolete for a little while (was already obsolete in 1.2,  
> possibly in 1.1 as well (I don’t remember)). The dependency stuff just  
> got smarter I suppose.

Fred