Facebook bot makes request as soon as gem is required about legitbot HOT 3 CLOSED

Forgot to thank you for the fix. Thanks!

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Hello,

Why is it a problem? Currently Legitbot does not reload the set of Facebook IPs, so it makes sense to initialize it once. It can be a problem indeed for long-running Ruby applications, so there is #5.

Do you have other considerations?

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We sometimes run tests without internet connection, but the entire suite fails to boot simply because Legitbot is in the Gemfile. We can't even get to a point where stubbing the Legitbot class would work, since the stub would run after the Legitbot class is required.

Maybe one solution could be to lazy-load the IPs. That way, the request is only made on the first valid? call to the FacebookBot. Or, add a requirement for a Rails initializer like:

# in config/initializers/legitbot.rb
Legitbot.load_bots!

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