Rails initializers
By default, Rails loads Zeitwerk after the initializers in config/initializers
are loaded.
Autoloading before Zeitwerk is loaded is now deprecated but because we use a lot of autoloaded
constants in our initializers, we had to move the loading of Zeitwerk earlier than these
initializers.
A side-effect of this is that in the initializers, config.autoload_paths
is already frozen.
To run an initializer before Zeitwerk is loaded, you need put them in config/initializers_before_autoloader
.
Ruby files in this folder are loaded in alphabetical order just like the default Rails initializers.
Some examples where you would need to do this are:
- Modifying Rails'
config.autoload_paths
- Changing configuration that Zeitwerk uses, e.g. inflections