Plain old Ruby object location in Rails

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Rails n00b question. I am creating a plain old Ruby object in Rails. But I am not sure if there is a standard location in the app that I should put this object. Thanks

Accepted Answer

Several choices, but the `lib` directory is the most common.

If you need to initialize the code, the most common place is `config/initializers`.

So you might have:

```
lib/mystuff.rb
```

and:

```
config/initializers/mystuff.rb
lib/mystuff.rb
```

contains your ruby code.

```
config/initializers/mystuff.rb
```

contains code that initializes your stuff, whatever Ruby files that are found in `config/initializers` are run when Rails boots up.

Plain old Ruby object location in Rails

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