Ruby on Rails, how to setup hot swap for lib folder?

Question

My models are becoming bigger and bigger (fat model thin controller approach) so I am making more and more modules (eg /lib/user/*).

Problem is that they don't get re-deployed so each time I have to restart Webrick.

How to set "hot swap" for lib folder?

Thank you, and generally is that good practice since it is not enabled by default.

Answer 1

Use Guard and Guard-Rails . Guard allows watching of files/folders and taking actions. Guard-Rails will restart your rails server each time a particular file is changed. The default folders for Guard-Rails includes the lib folder (and subfolders).

You can find details for Guard on github .