Controller monkey patch in initializer gets lost when rails reloads classes

Question

I am trying to monkey patch controller classes in a third party gem. To be precise, I am trying to add parameter wrapping to devise controllers. In initializers/wrap_p

Answer 1

I had a similar issue before with trying to monkeypatch code that is lazy loaded in rails. I was able to fix it by wrapping my patch in a module then extending the module in the class you are editing. It would be something like this inside a new file in config/initializers:

module MyDeviseDecorator
  wrap_parameters :user, format: [:json]
end

class DeviseController < Devise.parent_controller.constantize
    extend MyDeviseDectorator
end

I may have a devise class name wrong, it should match whatever you are trying to monkeypatch. Im not 100% this method will fix your problem like it fixed mine but give it a try; I would have left this as a comment but didnt have the minimum rep.