Override existing Discourse methods in plugins

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Yes, indeed. Since that post, updates to Discourse’s use of rails have made require_dependency unecessary. I’m unable to edit the post to address that. See further:

Upgrading Discourse to Zeitwerk

Rails 6 ships with two autoloading modes: zeitwerk and classic. In that pull request https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8083 I upgraded Rails to version 6.0.0 with classic autoloader as a transitional phase. It would be interesting to try to switch to Zeitwerk. Zeitwerk is an efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby. As long as the project is following naming conventions, Zeitwerk can find correct files and load them on demand or upfront without the need for any require or requir…