Rails engines extending functionality

Question

I have an engine which defines some models and controllers. I want to be able to extend functionality of some models/controllers in my application (eg. adding methods) witho

Answer 1

You can change the load order of the engine to avoid the require on each of your models.

In config/application.rb add this line:

module MyApp
  class Application
    config.railties_order = [MyEngine::Engine, :main_app, :all]
  end
end

This will ensure that the models from MyEngine are loaded before MyApp