Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I need to use the CSV module built into Ruby 1.9.2, and, in order to do this, I need to do require 'csv'.
In Rails 3, where is the proper place to put this require? I have seen examples where it’s at the top of the file it’s used in.
I have also see an example where it’s put in config/initializers/csv_init.rb.
Is there a rule of thumb here? If I need it in multiple files, put it in an initializer, if only one put it in the file itself?
Put it in ‘config/application.rb’. (See “Configuring Rails Applications“).
In general, do this stuff in a central place and document it. The person maintaining your application will appreciate it when some future Ruby or Rails version breaks all kinds of backward compatibility.