<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">we need some way to keep this separate so that "rake" has a way of knowing what to load (without loading the whole application)</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>there are other ways to solve this issue.. for instance the merb_init.rb file could have some form of namespacing:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div># dependacies are loaded first, you should </div><div># place everything your application needs to</div><div># run in this block</div><div>#</div><div>configure :dependancies do |config|</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gem.path.unshift(MERB_ROOT / "deps")</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>config.after_app_loads do</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span># something<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>end</div><div>end</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div># server options are set in this block</div><div>#</div><div>configure :server do |server|</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>server.host = '127.0.0.1'<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>server.port = 4000<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>end</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div># configure your session store here</div><div>#</div><div>configure :session do |session|</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>session.store = 'cookie'<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>end</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div># add additional mime types</div><div>#</div><div>configure :mime_types do |mime|</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mime.type 'text', 'text/html'<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>end</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>looks pretty but might just be adding to much complexity.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Farms.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Design & Dev</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#494949" face="Georgia" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; ">Oxygen.</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#605E5F" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.oxdi.eu">http://www.oxdi.eu</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BDBDBD" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BDBDBD" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>