As a consequence, applications cannot autoload within those files. Before, they technnically could, but changes in autoloaded classes or modules had no effect anyway in the configuration because reloading does not reboot.
* Define early in the boot process a class that is not reloadable, from which the application takes configuration values that get passed to the framework.
```ruby
# In config/application.rb, for example.
require "#{Rails.root}/lib/my_app/config"
# In config/environments/development.rb, for example.
config.foo = MyApp::Config.foo
```
* If the class has to be reloadable, then wrap the configuration code in a `to_prepare` block:
```ruby
config.to_prepare do
config.foo = MyModel.foo
end
```
That assigns the latest `MyModel.foo` to `config.foo` when the application boots, and each time there is a reload. But whether that has an effect or not depends on the configuration point, since it is not uncommon for engines to read the application configuration during initialization and set their own state from them. That process happens only on boot, not on reloads, and if that is how `config.foo` worked, resetting it would have no effect in the state of the engine.