Rails engines question

rubyonrails-talk
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I would like to use my own directory named forms inside my own engine. I know I can add it to loading paths like this in application.rb module MyAPP   class Application < Rails::Application     config.paths["forms"] = Rails.root.join('vendor/myapp/forms')   end end or inside

and can access it inside controller like this:

  MyAPP::Application.config["forms"]

Which is a bit of a problem since my engine would have to know application name inside which it runs. So, my questions are:

1. Is there a better way to access config object?. Like session or params inside controller.

2. What Rails API method is used to search files for example in MyAPP::Application.config["views"] paths and returns name of file (view) if find.

by TheR

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I found it myself.

1. Rails.configuration.paths["forms"]

2. I did my own method for now.

def find_form_file(form)   Rails.configuration.paths["forms"].each do |path|     f = "#{path}/#{form}.yml"     return f if File.exist?(f)   end   p "Form file #{form} not found!"   nil end

by TheR