Monkey Patching ActiveRecord Models

While working on a Rails application I had a need to override a method on an ActiveRecord model, but only in the development environment. I could conditionally include my monkey patched module in the class definition, like so:

class MyModel < ApplicationRecord
  include MyDevOverrides if Rails.env.development?
end

This works, but I prefer to keep environment specific information in initializers. At first I tried calling include on the class with my module, but that doesn't work correctly due to Rail's autoloading behavior. The trick is to use ActiveSupport::Reloader.to_prepare like so:

module MyDevOverrides
  ...
end

ActiveSupport::Reloader.to_prepare do
  MyModel.include MyDevOverrides
end