Hey, Still trying to dissect plugins, I was looking to override TopicsController in my studies and searched the Discourse code repo and noticed reloadable_patch Then I searched for reloadable_patch in Discourse, and got 12 code hits: [image] Build software better, together GitHub is …

lib/plugin/instance.rb 232d27783 private def write_asset(path, contents) unless File.exists?(path) ensure_directory(path) File.open(path, "w") { |f| f.write(contents) } end …

[image] fzngagan: Its defined here. Hope that helps in digging further. Thanks so much @fzngagan Not sure why that def method did not show up when I searched the repo with that keyword; but that is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you again!! Edit: I see what happened. I did not lo…

Explained nicely by @markvanlan [image] Discourse Plugins and Rails 6 config/initializers Question dev I guess I have mislead you in posts above. reloadable_patch is helpful for discourse development, but @david explained it’s use very well: Anything inside the after_in…

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fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan) November 3, 2020, 8:59am 4

Explained nicely by @markvanlan

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