From: Ryan Davis Date: 2009-12-01T06:39:01+09:00 Subject: Re: How does ActiveRecord do it? On Nov 30, 2009, at 07:51 , Ralph Shnelvar wrote: > What _Ruby_ facility does Rails use to reload the class? #load will always load a file (contrasted to #require). Rails does a few other things during reload, but that's the main mechanism for it.