How to reload a gem on every request in Development mode? [closed]

Answer 1

You could add the path to the gem in the autoload paths for the app.

So, in config/application.rb, within the class Application < Rails::Application ... end block add:

config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/vendor/gems/my_gem/lib)
config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/vendor/gems/my_gem/lib/**/"]

Then, when running your development server, all files in there should be reloaded.

Answer 2

I've just found awesome https://github.com/colinyoung/gem_reloader - it works for me!

Answer 3

Super simple fix:

In yourApp/config/envirornments/development.rb:
YourApp::Application.configure do

  # Make sure both of these two settings are set to false, add them if you can't find them
  config.cache_classes =  false
  config.action_controller.perform_caching = false
  #
  #
  # Other config settings...
  #
  #

end

Answer 4

This solution almost works but for some reason I have to put it into application.rb and not in environments/development.rb otherwise the autoload_paths are not recognized.

I added some additional stuff which fetches the paths automagically.

if Rails.env.development?
  reload_gems = %w(my_gem other_gem) # names of gems which should autoreload
  config.autoload_paths += Gem.loaded_specs.values.inject([]){ |a,gem| a += gem.load_paths if reload_gems.include? gem.name; a }
  require 'active_support/dependencies'
  ActiveSupport::Dependencies.explicitly_unloadable_constants += reload_gems.map { |gem| gem.classify }
end

Local gems can be added with gem 'my_gem', :path => '../my_gem'

Answer 5

For an engine:

module Copycat
  class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
    if Rails.env.development?
      config.to_prepare do
        Rails.logger.debug "RELOADING COPYCAT"
        require_dependency Copycat::Engine.root.join('lib', 'copycat').to_s
      end

      config.after_initialize do
        # optional, without it will call `to_prepend` only when a file changes,
        # not on every request
        Rails.application.config.reload_classes_only_on_change = false
      end
    end
  end
end