Well, at first. You need to tell the autoloader where to find the php file for a class. That’s done by following the PSR-0 standard. The best way is to use namespaces. The autoloader searches for a Acme/Tests/ReturningTest.php file when you requested a Acme\Tests\ReturningTest class. There are some great namespace tutorials out there, just search … Read more
Every package should be responsible for autoloading itself, what are you trying to achieve with autoloading classes that are out of the package you define? One workaround if it’s for your application itself is to add a namespace to the loader instance, something like this: <?php $loader = require ‘vendor/autoload.php’; $loader->add(‘AppName’, __DIR__.’/../src/’);
I encountered the same problem and it seems to be a caching issue with Spring, a process which handles preloading your app. It’s used for the web server as well as the console and Rake tasks. Stopping Spring with bin/spring stop will force Spring to load your app fresh. Now running rails console and inspecting … Read more
Class1 is not in the global scope. Note that this is an old answer and things have changed since the days where you couldn’t assume the support for spl_autoload_register() which was introduced in PHP 5.1 (now many years ago!). These days, you would likely be using Composer. Under the hood, this would be something along … Read more
My list of changes after moving to Rails 5: Place lib dir into app because all code inside app is autoloaded in dev and eager loaded in prod and most importantly is autoreloaded in development so you don’t have to restart server each time you make changes. Remove any require statements pointing to your own … Read more
spl_autoload_register() allows you to register multiple functions (or static methods from your own Autoload class) that PHP will put into a stack/queue and call sequentially when a “new Class” is declared. So for example: spl_autoload_register(‘myAutoloader’); function myAutoloader($className) { $path=”/path/to/class/”; include $path.$className.’.php’; } //————————————- $myClass = new MyClass(); In the example above, “MyClass” is the name … Read more
As of Rails 2.3.9, there is a setting in config/application.rb in which you can specify directories that contain files you want autoloaded. From application.rb: # Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable. # config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/extras)