Requiring a file in ROR

Question

I have a controller which wish to include a file in another folder, how do I do that? I am using Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.2.6. Thanks

Controller file is in

/project/app/controllers/examples_controller.rb

and the required file is in

/project/example_folder/example.rb

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:06

2

require File.join(Rails.root, "example_folder", "example")

assuming /projects/ is your rails application root folder

answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:06

Erez Rabih

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

0

according to here

requie_relative '../../example_folder/example.rb'

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

Community

answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:05

wizztjh

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:05

0

You can auto load custom directories with classes and modules you want to be.

So you can Edit config/application.rb

# Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable.
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/example_folder)

answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:05

Shamith c

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:09

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It would be something like this:

require "#{Rails.root}/example_folder/example.rb"

just before the declaration of your controller.

answered Jul 20 '12 at 09:09

Gawyn

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