How to use lib in rails migrations?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to easily access methods/classes from the lib folder in migrations? I found a way to require them with

require File.expand_path("../../lib/my_library")

I don't really like this and I was wondering if there is a more common way to include those libraries required by the migration?

Ref:- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3672586/what-is-require-relative-in-ruby — Salil, Jun 03 '13 at 10:04

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '13 at 10:24

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rake db:migrate load all rails environment, so you can just add lib in autoload in application.rb file like this and it should work.

config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/lib/**/"]

answered Jun 03 '13 at 10:24

Ivan Shamatov

Just as I thought. I don't unterstand why they don't add it always. I mean, the lib directory is something special isn't it? But thanks for your answer. :) – Jun 03 '13 at 10:28

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