Readme: Serializer Classes Not Automatically Reloaded

[dmin]

Awesome library!

This is only a possible issue with the readme, in the Getting Started section it gives instructions to add the following code to an initializer:

Dir[Rails.root.join('app/serializers/**/*.rb')].each do |path|
  require path
end

If you are using Rails' standard autoloading/reloading features in development the above initializer will prevent rails from reloading your serializer classes after you change them because of the explicit require statements.

Something more along the lines of

config.autoload_paths += ["#{config.root}/app/serializers"]

in config/application.rb should allow for your serializer classes to be automatically reloaded by rails in development. (this assumes that you have a serializer saved as /app/serializers/model_name_serializer.rb, and the corresponding class in that file named ModelNameSerializer)

[chourobin]

I thought Rails already includes everything in the app/ directory for autoloading? I gave your suggestion a shot but unfortunately, it would lazy load the first serializer used in the app and not load the other ones leading to an error. I would be interested to see if anyone faced similar issues trying to get RestPack Serializers to play nice with Rails autoloading.