My list of changes after moving to Rails 5:
- Place
lib
dir intoapp
because all code inside app is autoloaded in dev and eager loaded in prod and most importantly is autoreloaded in development so you don’t have to restart server each time you make changes. - Remove any
require
statements pointing to your own classes insidelib
because they all are autoloaded anyway if their file/dir naming are correct, and if you leaverequire
statements it can break autoreloading. More info here - Set
config.eager_load = true
in all environments to see code loading problems eagerly in dev. - Use
Rails.application.eager_load!
before playing with threads to avoid “circular dependency” errors. -
If you have any ruby/rails extensions then leave that code inside old
lib
directory and load them manually from initializer. This will ensure that extensions are loaded before your further logic that can depend on it:# config/initializers/extensions.rb Dir["#{Rails.root}/lib/ruby_ext/*.rb"].each { |file| require file } Dir["#{Rails.root}/lib/rails_ext/*.rb"].each { |file| require file }