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| author | Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> | 2014-12-15 18:30:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> | 2014-12-15 18:30:11 -0800 |
| commit | fa2e5903f7815f1a290a5027e8e9d052beb534ad (patch) | |
| tree | 77d9dfbf841b7d3c966eda9d78440665d2782600 /guides | |
| parent | 1b9dca54fd5c65ed8b4aa96e2b6826cefb2c3e62 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #18040 from jonatack/patch-11
Improve autoload_paths section [ci skip]
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| -rw-r--r-- | guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md | 19 |
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diff --git a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md index afb5b6a694..03a4f2563f 100644 --- a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md +++ b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md @@ -397,19 +397,18 @@ require 'erb' ``` Ruby looks for the file in the directories listed in `$LOAD_PATH`. That is, Ruby -iterates over all its directories and for each one of them checks whether they -have a file called "erb.rb", or "erb.so", or "erb.o", or "erb.dll". If it finds -any of them, the interpreter loads it and ends the search. Otherwise, it tries -again in the next directory of the list. If the list gets exhausted, `LoadError` -is raised. +iterates over all its directories and for each one of them checks whether it +has a file called "erb.rb", "erb.so", "erb.o" or "erb.dll". If it finds one, +the interpreter loads it and ends the search. Otherwise, it tries again in the +next directory of the list. If the list gets exhausted, `LoadError` is raised. We are going to cover how constant autoloading works in more detail later, but -the idea is that when a constant like `Post` is hit and missing, if there's a -*post.rb* file for example in *app/models* Rails is going to find it, evaluate -it, and have `Post` defined as a side-effect. +the idea is that when a constant like `Post` is hit and missing, if there is a +*post.rb* file, for example in *app/models*, Rails will find it, evaluate it +and have `Post` defined as a side-effect. -Alright, Rails has a collection of directories similar to `$LOAD_PATH` in which -to lookup that *post.rb*. That collection is called `autoload_paths` and by +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 default it contains: * All subdirectories of `app` in the application and engines. For example, |