Question

I have the following code in lib/test/company.rb:

module Test
  class Company
    # irrelevant stuff
  end
end

In spec/model/request.rb, I’ve tried all of the following:

require "company"
require "lib/test/company"
require "lib/test/company.rb"
require Rails.root + "/lib/test/company.rb"

None of those works, at the class certainly isn’t getting autoloaded. What’s going on?

Answer 1

In your spec file:

require "test/company"

This is unnecessary if you’d like to autoload all modules/classes from lib. To do so, add to the config block in your application.rb file:

module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application

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

  end
end

Addition:

You can then call Test::Company from the top-level namespace to access this class.