Where to put my homegrown class ?

rubyonrails-talk
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I've developed a file (let's call it mypdf.rb) which extends the module PDF::Writer with some additional methods. This enables me to produce PDF documents of a very specific nature for a project I am working on.

I've developed and tested this outside the RoR framework. Now I want to use it within the context of a RoR application.

Where should I put the mypdf.rb file, so that I can define objects from the class ? Somewhere within the RoR application framework code ? Or somewhere in the Ruby install tree ?

TIA

Phil Nelson

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rails_root/lib

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I am 95% sure that if you put the class in the root of lib (_not_ in a subdirectory) it will be autoloaded by Rails initializer. So don't need the explicity require. At least with version 1.1.6.

- rob