diff options
author | Jeff Dean <jeff@zilkey.com> | 2008-11-17 00:15:20 -0500 |
---|---|---|
committer | Jeff Dean <jeff@zilkey.com> | 2008-11-17 00:15:20 -0500 |
commit | 236142d23eb083d0a755d29d6365925ae5cc9f03 (patch) | |
tree | f12e47105127b61d02084d48146cdaeaf43b855b /railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt | |
parent | eda282f85743961e2910e4e493a2690fa633b94f (diff) | |
download | rails-236142d23eb083d0a755d29d6365925ae5cc9f03.tar.gz rails-236142d23eb083d0a755d29d6365925ae5cc9f03.tar.bz2 rails-236142d23eb083d0a755d29d6365925ae5cc9f03.zip |
Rails plugin: misc error fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt b/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt index efef0e1f70..cbedb9eaf2 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/source/creating_plugins/core_ext.txt @@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ $ ./script/console === Working with init.rb === -When rails loads plugins it looks for the file named init.rb. However, when the plugin is initialized, 'init.rb' is invoked via `eval` (not `require`) so it has slightly different behavior. +When rails loads plugins it looks for the file named 'init.rb' or 'rails/init.rb'. However, when the plugin is initialized, 'init.rb' is invoked via `eval` (not `require`) so it has slightly different behavior. Under certain circumstances if you reopen classes or modules in 'init.rb' you may inadvertently create a new class, rather than reopening an existing class. A better alternative is to reopen the class in a different file, and require that file from `init.rb`, as shown above. If you must reopen a class in `init.rb` you can use `module_eval` or `class_eval` to avoid any issues: -*vendor/plugins/yaffle/init.rb* +*vendor/plugins/yaffle/rails/init.rb* [source, ruby] --------------------------------------------------- @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ end Another way is to explicitly define the top-level module space for all modules and classes, like `::Hash`: -*vendor/plugins/yaffle/init.rb* +*vendor/plugins/yaffle/rails/init.rb* [source, ruby] --------------------------------------------------- |