Question on when ruby classes are refreshed

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Hi,

I noticed that classes present in app/controller, helper, models and
views are all change aware. (The name for this escapes me). I mean if
you change a certain controller, these changes are immediately available
(development) without restarting any webserver.

Q? how is this behavior called?

I have some custom ruby classes not part of ruby on rails. Any changes
made to these custom classes are not showing the same behavior. How can
I extend this dynamic change behavior to my custom classes.

Eg I have an extra folder of classes present in app/mycustomfolder which
I would like to have this dynamic behavior.

Thanks for any help,

Cheers,

Tiele

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On 1/18/06, Defrancq, Tiele [email protected] wrote:

Eg I have an extra folder of classes present in app/mycustomfolder which I
would like to have this dynamic behavior.

This behavior is turned on in the development environment. You can
control it by editing config/environments/development.rb

If you ‘require’ your library in environment.rb or boot.rb, it will
only be loaded once. If you use ‘require_dependency’ instead, it will
behave like the other classes do.