Question

Using Rails 3.2 and ruby 1.9.3p0

I am trying out the gem delayed_job. I have created a file lib/mailing_job.rb in which I have class MailingJob.

In a controller under app/controllers/requests_controller.rb I am calling

job = MailingJob.new(@request)

but this is returning the error

uninitialized constant RequestsController::MailingJob

I think it is because I need a proper way of referencing a class under a different folder structure.

Any idea how I can isntantiate class MailingJob from a different file (class) in a different folder?

Answer 1

Rails 3 does not include the lib folder within the load path so your application does not know how to find the class.

You can modify config/application.rb and add a line to instruct rails to also look in the lib folder like so

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