how to override rails 3 engine models and controllers in the main application?

I want to be able to override models and controllers of my rails 3 engine in the base app.

Inspecting $LOAD_PATH, I found engine's 'app/{models,controllers}' th开发者_如何学编程ere, but I can't explicitly require engine's model or controller file: require 'engine_name/model_name' fails with "no such file" (tried with both namespaced(app/controllers/enginename/*) and plain engine).

So, what's the best way to extend engine's models/controllers in rails 3 without copying them to base app?

Basically, it's a load order problem. So, if I explicitly require model from engine, everything's ok, but I hope there is a better way.

So I actually went back and wrote the documentation. The answer is to Open Class the Controller and Model classes using either,

• Class#eval_class
• ActiveSupport::Concern

More details here, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html#overriding-models-and-controllers

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