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| author | Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> | 2014-12-15 18:31:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> | 2014-12-15 18:31:27 -0800 |
| commit | 8e9685bf72d466b97655e0310eda24527aa2cbb3 (patch) | |
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Ruby will allocate the class as a side-effect, since it is already defined.
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diff --git a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md index 03a4f2563f..a6b270e06d 100644 --- a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md +++ b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ next directory of the list. If the list gets exhausted, `LoadError` is raised. We are going to cover how constant autoloading works in more detail later, but the idea is that when a constant like `Post` is hit and missing, if there is a *post.rb* file, for example in *app/models*, Rails will find it, evaluate it -and have `Post` defined as a side-effect. +and allocate the class `Post` as a side-effect. At this point, Rails has a collection of directories similar to `$LOAD_PATH` in which to look up *post.rb*. That collection is called `autoload_paths` and by |