"config/initializer" replacing "lib" folder ?

I'm upgrading to rails 2.1, and there is a new convention with the config/initializer folder.

As I understand, the purpose of this folder is to put configurations that need to get loaded between the Rails being loaded and potentially files from your app.

Im trying to see where I draw the line though. Right now I have require lines after the initialization block from my old environment.rb file.

Whats the best convention here. Should I put "require 'file'" in each file that needs it and avoid requiring it upon startup or should I put these files in config/initializer and just require it upon startup so that its available across the entire app. If I do the latter, the config/initializer will start looking like my lib file currently looks right now.

Im a little torn, here.

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