Trouble with Active Admin and Packs: Uninitialized Constant Error in Demo Day Pack

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Hi! i was wondering if anyone here has had issues using active admin with packs, or has had success in doing so. I’ve had good progress extracting my code into a pack but i’m struggling with active admin particularly.

given this active admin view in packs/demo_day_pack/app/admin/demo_day_pack/demo_day.rb:

ActiveAdmin.register DemoDayPack::DemoDay do
  index do
    id_column
    actions
  end
end

when running the app it throws

Exiting
/Users/rieg/cs/platanus/tmp/packs-example/packs/demo_day_pack/app/admin/demo_day_pack/demo_day.rb:1:in `<main>': uninitialized constant DemoDayPack::DemoDay (NameError)

ActiveAdmin.register DemoDayPack::DemoDay do

any ideas on what could be a good solution to this? it seems like when active admin initializes, the namespace for the pack exists but the model is not loaded yet

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oh, and btw i have this ActiveAdmin.application.load_paths += ["packs/demo_day_pack/app/admin"] on an initializer inside the pack, otherwise active admin does not knows about the pack

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if i remove the load_paths change, the view is not registered and when running rails console and trying to use the model’s methods i get this:

$ bin/rails c
Running via Spring preloader in process 13747
Loading development environment (Rails 6.1.7.3)
[1] pry(main)> DemoDayPack::DemoDay
NameError: uninitialized constant DemoDayPack::DemoDay

ActiveAdmin.register DemoDayPack::DemoDay do
                                ^^^^^^^^^
from /tmp/packs-example/packs/demo_day_pack/app/admin/demo_day_pack/demo_day.rb:1:in `<main>'
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I manage to make it work adding the following to an initializer:

ActiveAdmin::ApplicationSettings.load_paths << File.expand_path('app/admin', pack.relative_path.to_s)
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That is inside a loop traversing all packs

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genio