Discourse Plugins and Rails 6 config/initializers Question

merefield · October 27, 2020, 1:35pm

I believe so too.

You load any additional Ruby files you need from within plugin.rb.

Here’s an example from the Follow plugin:

plugin.rb

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          after_initialize do
            Notification.types[:following] = 800
            Notification.types[:following_posted] = 801
            Notification.types[:following_replied] = 802
            
            PostAlerter::NOTIFIABLE_TYPES.push(Notification.types[:following])
            PostAlerter::NOTIFIABLE_TYPES.push(Notification.types[:following_posted])
            PostAlerter::NOTIFIABLE_TYPES.push(Notification.types[:following_replied])
            PostAlerter::COLLAPSED_NOTIFICATION_TYPES.push(Notification.types[:following_replied])
            
            %w[
              ../lib/follow/engine.rb
              ../lib/follow/notification.rb
              ../lib/follow/updater.rb
              ../app/controllers/follow/follow_controller.rb
              ../config/routes.rb
            ].each do |path|
              load File.expand_path(path, __FILE__)
            end
            
            add_to_class(:user, :following_ids) do

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