How do i define a second environment.rb file in rails?

Question

My default environment.rb is overflowing, and i would like to have a separate file that works exactly the same way. How can I do so?

Answer 1

Rails actually uses eval to load the special environment files such as config/environments/development.rb. This is the code it uses:

eval(IO.read(configuration.environment_path), binding, configuration.environment_path)

You could define a method such as load_more_environment like this:

def load_more_environment(path)
  eval(IO.read(path), binding, path)
end

The first argument to eval is just the code you want to load and it will be executed within the current binding. The third argument will be used to report syntax errors in the file.

Answer 2

You're likely adding things to the environment file that should be in an initializer. Check the config/initializers directory for some examples of what to put in there. That should allow you to break things up and make everything more organized.