Question

I have a class in the lib directory:

lib/static.rb

Inside that I have:

class Static
  def self.boo
    return 'what'
  end
end

I have a controller:

class PensionsController < ApplicationController
  layout 'page'
  def guides
    render :text => Static.boo
  end
end

And i’m getting this error:

undefined method `boo' for Static:Class

Any ideas what i’m doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Are you using Rails 2 or 3? In Rails 3 classes in the lib directory aren’t loaded by default.

I have this line at the bottom of config/application.rb to enable that behavior:

config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)