Namespacing Models et al

[singpolyma]

Just ran into this for the first time and thought it was worth talking about: because models and controllers and such just live in the root namespace, they can be shadowed when importing a gem.

My proposal (for discussion) is that Rails could put all the app classes inside the module that exists for the app (as defined in config/application.rb). Autoloading, auto-lookup, etc would use the fully-qualified name, but the unqualified name would still work everywhere in app code because we're inside the module. Then if an overlapping name exists in a gem we can get at it with ::Name, etc.

Thoughts?

[rafaelfranca]

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