If I am right, when starting script/console (or script/server), models are not automatically required.
But with you type MyModel.find(:first) in the console, it works. Is there any kind of method_missing implemented somewhere that does the require when console is feeded MyModel ?
Thx Julien
Yeah. ActiveSupport dependency checking in activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
In this case, it builds off of Module#const_missing.
Jason
That's it, the callback is called const_missing.
That's not something specific to the console, it is a Rails feature. Note that a typical Rails application does not need to require their controllers, models, helpers, ..., but you should in regular Ruby. That's the reason.
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