Accessing models from within the lib directory in a Rails 3 project

Question

I have a file in the lib directory that uses some constants defined in a model, like:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   MAX_EMAIL_ADDRESS_LENGTH = 255
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Answer 1

The solution was, that my file in /lib was actually being required by a rake file, and it seems rake files are loaded before the whole auto-load system is setup by Rails, so it couldn't find the model. After I remove the require from the .rake file, everything started working.