Where would i put a home-made exception class in rails?

Rails
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I’m a bit unsure about the structure of rails…if i make my own class
for something, eg an exception class extending StandardError, where does
that class live?

thanks
max

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On 9/18/07, Max W. [email protected] wrote:

I’m a bit unsure about the structure of rails…if i make my own class
for something, eg an exception class extending StandardError, where does
that class live?

The source file should go into the lib/ directory. That directory is
automatically added to $LOAD_PATH by the Rails initialization process.
You can “require” the file in several ways:

  1. Use a require statement at the point of need.

  2. Add a require statement to config/environment.rb

  3. Take advantage of rails’ magic auto-loading gizmo that will
    automatically load some_class.rb if you reference SomeClass and it’s
    not already defined.

See also:

http://toolmantim.com/article/2006/12/27/environments_and_the_rails_initialisation_process

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Bob S. wrote:

On 9/18/07, Max W. [email protected] wrote:

I’m a bit unsure about the structure of rails…if i make my own class
for something, eg an exception class extending StandardError, where does
that class live?

The source file should go into the lib/ directory. That directory is
automatically added to $LOAD_PATH by the Rails initialization process.
You can “require” the file in several ways:

  1. Use a require statement at the point of need.

  2. Add a require statement to config/environment.rb

  3. Take advantage of rails’ magic auto-loading gizmo that will
    automatically load some_class.rb if you reference SomeClass and it’s
    not already defined.

See also:

http://toolmantim.com/article/2006/12/27/environments_and_the_rails_initialisation_process

aha - great advice, nice link as well. There’s stuff in environment
that i use but don’t really get (never a good situation).

Many thanks!