Merge pull request #36340 from jhawthorn/evented_file_checker_symlink

Fix EventedFileUpdateChecker through a symlink 

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/evented_file_update_checker.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/evented_file_update_checker.rb
index 3f6fd58f5e..84caa00b58 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/evented_file_update_checker.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/evented_file_update_checker.rb
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
     private
       def boot!
+        normalize_dirs!
         Listen.to(*@dtw, &method(:changed)).start
       end
 
@@ -114,6 +115,12 @@ module ActiveSupport
         Listen.stop
       end
 
+      def normalize_dirs!
+        @dirs.transform_keys! do |dir|
+          dir.exist? ? dir.realpath : dir
+        end
+      end
+
       def changed(modified, added, removed)
         unless updated?
           @updated.make_true if (modified + added + removed).any? { |f| watching?(f) }