# Pick up change to plain ol' Ruby file?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pick-up-change-to-plain-ol-ruby-file/186551>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pick-up-change-to-plain-ol-ruby-file/186551 "2010-04-08T19:05:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrismalek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrismalek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrismalek)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pick-up-change-to-plain-ol-ruby-file/186551/1 "2010-04-08T19:05:55Z")

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I have a .rb file without any controllers, models, etc. in it - in dev  
mode  
my instance picks up new changes to foo\_controller.rb, but it doesn’t  
pick  
up changes to my util.rb file. Is there a way to convince Rails to do  
so?

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Chris  
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**Author:** ![chrismalek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrismalek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrismalek)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pick-up-change-to-plain-ol-ruby-file/186551/2 "2010-04-08T20:43:40Z")

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Chris,

It should pick it up from the lib folder. Although, it seems some older  
versions of rails did not.

Anthony

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