Automatically require any files in app/config/initializers

[rwjblue]

Currently there is no automatic way of getting an initializer to run for you. I'm proposing to have any modules in the registry that start with app/config/initializers be required upon startup within the app.js (and start_app.js testing helper).

I can implement this fairly easily if y'all agree.

[MajorBreakfast]

Excellent idea. Also maybe for handlebars helpers. What about putting them directly into app/initializers?

[rwjblue]

It doesn't matter too much to me where they go, just that they get loaded automatically.

That said, I personally would prefer to keep the configuration related things inside config. This might be unduly influenced by my Rails background, so I'll leave the final location up to @stefanpenner.

[HeroicEric]

I like this idea but I'm also coming from a Rails background.

I haven't run into this yet but are there ever situations where you would want to require initializers in a specific order? Would this still be configurable?

[MajorBreakfast]

Initializers have their own ordering mechanism with the "before" and "after" property. Pretty cool actually.

I'm for omitting the config folder because initializers are the config themselves.

[stefanpenner]

@rjackson closing in favor of a PR

[yaymukund]

👍 app/initializers

I tried to naively import an initializer from app.js, which in turn imported app.js and it didn't work.

[zonak]

Any updates on this?

[twokul]

@zonak I'm planning to take a stab at it today