Hot-code reloading is one of the more enjoyable features of using Xip Kit to create your bots. As you make changes to your bot, your source code is automatically loaded into memory without having to stop and start your bot!

There is nothing you need to turn on to start using this feature. As long as you are in the development environment. You may however wish to customize which files are watched for changes as you add your own custom directories, service objects, etc.

Customizing Hot-Reload Paths

By default, these are paths and files that Xip will watch for changes:

bot/controllers/conerns/*.*
bot/controllers/*.*
bot/models/concerns/*.*
bot/models/*.*
bot/helpers/*.*
config/*.*

In addition to your Ruby code in these directories, all reply files are automatically included since Xip reads their contents for each message.

Adding a File or Path to Watch

As you add your own directories to your bot, you'll want to add them to your autoload_path so that they can be hot-reloaded while in development.

Adding a Single File

To add the file lib/some_file.rb to the autoload_path, add this line to config/autoload.rb:

Xip.config.autoload_paths << File.join(Xip.root, 'lib', 'some_file')

Adding a Directory

To add the entire lib directory to the autoload_path, add this line to config/autoload.rb:

Xip.config.autoload_paths << File.join(Xip.root, 'lib')