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Adding code to Rails projects other than MVC

I wanted to have development code separate from the M V C of the rails code

so I added a folder lib/rubyscripts





Then in config/application.rb, added this line to load the code there automatically


config.autoload_paths << Rails.root.join("lib/rubyscripts")

After this, I can access code from this area in my controllers etc by using

require "class_name"


What is funny about this setup though is that, unlike in the controllers (where I can just use require "class_name" ) I still have to use the relative location rubyscripts/class_name in my spec files when referring to this code, don't exactly know why!



For example,
spec/lib/rubyscripts/count_finder_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require "spec_helper"
+require "rubyscripts/countFinder"
+
+# Test for lib/rubyscripts/count_finder.rb
+
+RSpec.describe "CountFinder" do
+ it "calculates counts" do
+ cc = CountFinder.new("http://wikipedia.org/wiki/google")
+ cc.find(["gooGle", ".com", "Yash"])
+ # we expect to find a non zero entry for gooGle but the others we are not sure
+ expect(cc.search_result).to include("gooGle")
+ expect(cc.search_result).not_to include("Yash")
+ end
+end




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