Redmine

Hello. Is there any generic solution for this problem? I'm trying to get the redmine_local_avatars plugin to run in development mode. It patches the User class to add some functionality, and unfortunately it doesn't work in development mode for the often seen problem of the plugin files not being reloaded.

To resolve the issue I tried to apply the solution described by Eric Davis using Dispatcher.to_prepare. I defined a block as like this:

Dispatcher.to_prepare(:local_avatars_user) do
  User.send(:include, LocalAvatarsPlugin::UsersAvatarPatch)
end

Unfortunately this results in a LoadError:

ERROR LoadError: Expected /home/<snip>/.../redmine/app/models/user.rb to define User

The problem seems to be that the system doesn't handle a circular dependency. This can be seen from the stack trace

app/models/user.rb to define User
app/models/project.rb:23
app/models/principal.rb:22
app/models/user.rb:20
vendor/plugins/redmine_local_avatars/lib/users_avatar_patch.rb:19

users_avatar_patch.rb:19 is the line User.send(:include, LocalAvatarsPlugin::UsersAvatarPatch)

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue? In production mode it seems to work fine.