Question

have a folder with proprietary classes(ex: propcode) with some classes in it(ex: propclass.rb), where should I put that folder and how to require inside controllers?
The classes does not have modules and I can’t change them because would brake another applications.

Thank you, I’m new to ruby and have been trying and failing for almost an hour now.

Answer 1

The best place to put files like this would be lib/propcode.
If you are only going to use the code in your controller, then you should require it at the top of app/controllers/application_controller.rb with the following code:

# Require propcode files
Dir.glob(Rails.root.join('lib/propcode/**/*.rb')).each do |f|
  require f
end

Then you will be able to use these classes in your controller, and they won’t be loaded for Rake tasks or background jobs.