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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt index efef0e1f70..cbedb9eaf2 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt @@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ $ ./script/console === Working with init.rb === -When rails loads plugins it looks for the file named init.rb. However, when the plugin is initialized, 'init.rb' is invoked via `eval` (not `require`) so it has slightly different behavior. +When rails loads plugins it looks for the file named 'init.rb' or 'rails/init.rb'. However, when the plugin is initialized, 'init.rb' is invoked via `eval` (not `require`) so it has slightly different behavior. Under certain circumstances if you reopen classes or modules in 'init.rb' you may inadvertently create a new class, rather than reopening an existing class. A better alternative is to reopen the class in a different file, and require that file from `init.rb`, as shown above. If you must reopen a class in `init.rb` you can use `module_eval` or `class_eval` to avoid any issues: -*vendor/plugins/yaffle/init.rb* +*vendor/plugins/yaffle/rails/init.rb* [source, ruby] --------------------------------------------------- @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ end Another way is to explicitly define the top-level module space for all modules and classes, like `::Hash`: -*vendor/plugins/yaffle/init.rb* +*vendor/plugins/yaffle/rails/init.rb* [source, ruby] --------------------------------------------------- |