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In your engine

  • At the top of config/initializers/react_on_rails.rb
ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_view) do
  include ReactOnRailsHelper
end
  • In your <engine_name>.gemspec:
s.add_dependency 'react_on_rails', '~> 6'
  • In your lib/<engine_name>.rb (the entry point for your engine)
require "react_on_rails"

In the project including your engine

Place gem 'react_on_rails', '~> 6' before the gem pointing at your engine in your gemfile.

Requiring react_on_rails and including the helper will get rid of any issues where react on rails or react_component is undefined.

As far as solving the assets issue, lib/tasks/assets.rake in react_on_rails would somehow have to know that react_on_rails was included in an engine, and decide the path accordingly. This might be impossible, especially in the case of multiple engines using react_on_rails in a single application.

Another solution would be to detach this rake task from the rails assets:precompile task. This can be done by adding REACT_ON_RAILS_PRECOMPILE=false to your environment. If you do so, then react assets will have to be bundled separately from rails assets:precompile.

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