How to get the list of all engines in Rails 3 app

Question

According to Rails engines extending functionality in Rails 2.x one could do

Rails::Initializer.new(Rails.configuration).plugin_loader.engines

This code is not working in Rails 3

ActionController::RoutingError (undefined method `new' for Rails::Initializer:Module):
  config/application.rb:12:in `require_or_load'

What do I need to do in Rails 3 to get such list of engines?

This is needed for Extending controllers of a Rails 3 Engine in the main app

Answer 1

For Rails 4 the best way is:

Rails.application.railties

Answer 2

Try:

Rails::Application.railties.engines

Answer 3

This has changed with Rails 4.1. The accepted answer is deprecated and the new way to get the installed Engines for a Rails application is now:

::Rails::Engine.subclasses.map(&:instance)

Here's a reference to the commit in github making the change (and also showing how it was implemented after initial deprecation...)

If you need to use the previous solution from Rails 4.1:

module Rails
    class Engine
        class Railties
            def self.engines
                @engines ||= Rails::Engine.subclasses.map(&:instance)
            end
        end
    end
end

Answer 4

As of 5/10/2011 and Rails 3.1 beta, it's now

Rails::Application::Railties.engines