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authorYauheni Dakuka <yauheni.dakuka@gmail.com>2017-09-06 15:49:04 +0300
committerYauheni Dakuka <yauheni.dakuka@gmail.com>2017-09-06 15:49:04 +0300
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fix type fully qualified [ci skip]
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@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/module/introspection.rb`.
#### `parent_name`
-The `parent_name` method on a nested named module returns the fully-qualified name of the module that contains its corresponding constant:
+The `parent_name` method on a nested named module returns the fully qualified name of the module that contains its corresponding constant:
```ruby
module X
@@ -3708,9 +3708,9 @@ Extensions to `NameError`
Active Support adds `missing_name?` to `NameError`, which tests whether the exception was raised because of the name passed as argument.
-The name may be given as a symbol or string. A symbol is tested against the bare constant name, a string is against the fully-qualified constant name.
+The name may be given as a symbol or string. A symbol is tested against the bare constant name, a string is against the fully qualified constant name.
-TIP: A symbol can represent a fully-qualified constant name as in `:"ActiveRecord::Base"`, so the behavior for symbols is defined for convenience, not because it has to be that way technically.
+TIP: A symbol can represent a fully qualified constant name as in `:"ActiveRecord::Base"`, so the behavior for symbols is defined for convenience, not because it has to be that way technically.
For example, when an action of `ArticlesController` is called Rails tries optimistically to use `ArticlesHelper`. It is OK that the helper module does not exist, so if an exception for that constant name is raised it should be silenced. But it could be the case that `articles_helper.rb` raises a `NameError` due to an actual unknown constant. That should be reraised. The method `missing_name?` provides a way to distinguish both cases: