I just clicked thru those slides the other day too. Having developed engines 
locally bundled to other applications, the part he talks about continuous 
development, is a dream. I found that in Bundler 1.2 you can config a repo for 
local usage without changing the Gemfile too.

http://gembundler.com/v1.2/whats_new.html

Gem/engine authoring has never been so good :)

 - Ken

On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Godfrey Chan <godfrey...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are using Rails 3.2, you can tell Rails to load your engine before it 
> loads your app like so:
> 
> config.railties_order = [ Your::Engine, :main_app, :all ]
> 
> Then your monkey patching should work.
> 
> If you are on older versions of Rails you can monkey patch AS::Dependencies 
> like http://www.slideshare.net/AndyMaleh/rails-engine-patterns (Slide 17). 
> You probably want to watch the whole talk by Andy Maleh here.
> 
> Godfrey
> 
> On 2012-09-28, at 4:14 AM, Luís Ferreira wrote:
> 
>> Hum... Haven't thought of that. Thanks.
>> 
>> Still, this is not the expected behaviour for a ruby class right? Or am I 
>> completly wrong here?
>> On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Robert Pankowecki wrote:
>> 
>>> Probably because of the way how Rails is looking for constants ? I would 
>>> guess that it does not read the file from engine at all, and just reads the 
>>> file from your app.
>>> 
>>> Robert Pankowecki
>>> http://robert.pankowecki.pl
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Luís Ferreira <zamith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>> 
>>> I've been working on engines lately and I can't understand why a class in 
>>> an engine can't be monkey patched. Here's an example:
>>> 
>>> In the engine:
>>> 
>>> class MyEngine::MyController < ApplicationController
>>>   def index
>>>     @stuff = 1
>>>   end
>>> 
>>>   def show
>>>     ... something happens ...
>>>   end
>>> end
>>> 
>>> In the app including the engine:
>>> 
>>> class MyEngine::MyController < ApplicationController
>>>   def index
>>>     @stuff = 2
>>>   end
>>> end
>>> 
>>> In this example I would expect for only the index method to be overriden, 
>>> but it seems the entire class is overriden. Is there any reason for this 
>>> behaviour? Is this a feature or a bug?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Luís Ferreira
>>> 
>>> 
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>> Cumprimentos,
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>> 
>> 
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