Properly loading ruby modules in Rails.

Question

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, I have a file in lib/acts_as_votable.rb, it's just a votable system for the app.

module ActsAsVotable

end

module ActiveRecord
  class Base
    class << self
      cattr_accessor :votable

      def acts_as_votable
        has_many :votes, :as => :voteable
      end

      def votable?
        method_defined? :votes
      end
    end

    def votable?
      self.class.send(:method_defined?, :votes)
    end
  end
end

But it seems that the module never loads:

undefined local variable or method `acts_as_votable' for #<Class:0x00000101796d80>

What would be the proper way to load modules?

Answer 1

You may put your extensions in the config/initializers directory, so they will be preloaded by Rails automatically.