Rails autoloading — how it works, and when it doesn't Update, 2020-11-04 I’ve written an article about the workings of the new loader for Rails 6, Zeitwerk. It avoids all of the pitfalls described below and is much easier to understand, which really is fantastic. Update, 2020-03-21 As of Rails 6, the autoloading framework used by Rails has been replaced with a new gem, zeitwerk. The below informat