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author | Olli Jokinen <olli.jokinen@enemy.fi> | 2011-12-01 15:32:59 +0200 |
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committer | Olli Jokinen <olli.jokinen@enemy.fi> | 2011-12-01 15:32:59 +0200 |
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile index 2ff5de2334..d91011c370 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/configuring.textile @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ Rails will use that particular setting to configure Active Record. h4. Rails General Configuration -* +config.after_initialize+ takes a block which will be ran _after_ Rails has finished initializing the application. That includes the initialization of the framework itself, plugins, engines, and all the application's initializers in +config/initializers+. Useful for configuring values set up by other initializers: +These configuration methods are to be called on a +Rails::Railtie+ object, such as a subclass of +Rails::Engine+ or +Rails::Application+. + +* +config.after_initialize+ takes a block which will be run _after_ Rails has finished initializing the application. That includes the initialization of the framework itself, plugins, engines, and all the application's initializers in +config/initializers+. Note that this block _will_ be run for rake tasks. Useful for configuring values set up by other initializers: <ruby> config.after_initialize do @@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ NOTE. The +config.asset_path+ configuration is ignored if the asset pipeline is * +config.autoload_paths+ accepts an array of paths from which Rails will autoload constants. Default is all directories under +app+. -* +config.cache_classes+ controls whether or not application classes and modules should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to true in development mode, and false in test and production modes. Can also be enabled with +threadsafe!+. +* +config.cache_classes+ controls whether or not application classes and modules should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to false in development mode, and true in test and production modes. Can also be enabled with +threadsafe!+. * +config.action_view.cache_template_loading+ controls whether or not templates should be reloaded on each request. Defaults to whatever is set for +config.cache_classes+. @@ -86,6 +88,8 @@ NOTE. The +config.asset_path+ configuration is ignored if the asset pipeline is * +config.log_level+ defines the verbosity of the Rails logger. This option defaults to +:debug+ for all modes except production, where it defaults to +:info+. +* +config.log_tags+ accepts a list of methods that respond to +request+ object. This makes it easy to tag log lines with debug information like subdomain and request id -- both very helpful in debugging multi-user production applications. + * +config.logger+ accepts a logger conforming to the interface of Log4r or the default Ruby +Logger+ class. Defaults to an instance of +ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger+, with auto flushing off in production mode. * +config.middleware+ allows you to configure the application's middleware. This is covered in depth in the "Configuring Middleware":#configuring-middleware section below. @@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ Rails 3.1, by default, is set up to use the +sprockets+ gem to manage assets wit * +config.assets.compress+ a flag that enables the compression of compiled assets. It is explicitly set to true in +config/production.rb+. -* +config.assets.css_compressor+ defines the CSS compressor to use. Only supported value at the moment is +:yui+, which uses the +yui-compressor+ gem. +* +config.assets.css_compressor+ defines the CSS compressor to use. It is set by default by +sass-rails+. The unique alternative value at the moment is +:yui+, which uses the +yui-compressor+ gem. * +config.assets.js_compressor+ defines the JavaScript compressor to use. Possible values are +:closure+, +:uglifier+ and +:yui+ which require the use of the +closure-compiler+, +uglifier+ or +yui-compressor+ gems respectively. @@ -134,6 +138,18 @@ Rails 3.1, by default, is set up to use the +sprockets+ gem to manage assets wit * +config.assets.prefix+ defines the prefix where assets are served from. Defaults to +/assets+. +* +config.assets.digest+ enables the use of MD5 fingerprints in asset names. Set to +true+ by default in +production.rb+. + +* +config.assets.debug+ disables the concatenation and compression of assets. Set to +false+ by default in +development.rb+. + +* +config.assets.manifest+ defines the full path to be used for the asset precompiler's manifest file. Defaults to using +config.assets.prefix+. + +* +config.assets.cache_store+ defines the cache store that Sprockets will use. The default is the Rails file store. + +* +config.assets.version+ is an option string that is used in MD5 hash generation. This can be changed to force all files to be recompiled. + +* +config.assets.compile+ is a boolean that can be used to turn on live Sprockets compilation in production. + h4. Configuring Generators @@ -167,16 +183,17 @@ h4. Configuring Middleware Every Rails application comes with a standard set of middleware which it uses in this order in the development environment: -* +Rack::SSL+ Will force every request to be under HTTPS protocol. Will be available if +config.force_ssl+ is set to +true+. +* +Rack::SSL+ forces every request to be under HTTPS protocol. Will be available if +config.force_ssl+ is set to +true+. Options passed to this can be configured by using +config.ssl_options+. * +ActionDispatch::Static+ is used to serve static assets. Disabled if +config.serve_static_assets+ is +true+. -* +Rack::Lock+ Will wrap the app in mutex so it can only be called by a single thread at a time. Only enabled if +config.action_controller.allow_concurrency+ is set to +false+, which it is by default. -* +ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache+ Serves as a basic memory backed cache. This cache is not thread safe and is intended only for serving as a temporary memory cache for a single thread. -* +Rack::Runtime+ Sets an +X-Runtime+ header, containing the time (in seconds) taken to execute the request. -* +Rails::Rack::Logger+ Notifies the logs that the request has began. After request is complete, flushes all the logs. -* +ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions+ Rescues any exception returned by the application and renders nice exception pages if the request is local or if +config.consider_all_requests_local+ is set to +true+. If +config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions+ is set to +false+, exceptions will be raised regardless. -* +ActionDispatch::RemoteIp+ Checks for IP spoofing attacks. Configurable with the +config.action_dispatch.ip_spoofing_check+ and +config.action_dispatch.trusted_proxies+ settings. -* +Rack::Sendfile+ Intercepts responses whose body is being served from a file and replaces it with a server specific X-Sendfile header. Configurable with +config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header+. -* +ActionDispatch::Callbacks+ Runs the prepare callbacks before serving the request. +* +Rack::Lock+ wraps the app in mutex so it can only be called by a single thread at a time. Only enabled if +config.action_controller.allow_concurrency+ is set to +false+, which it is by default. +* +ActiveSupport::Cache::Strategy::LocalCache+ serves as a basic memory backed cache. This cache is not thread safe and is intended only for serving as a temporary memory cache for a single thread. +* +Rack::Runtime+ sets an +X-Runtime+ header, containing the time (in seconds) taken to execute the request. +* +Rails::Rack::Logger+ notifies the logs that the request has began. After request is complete, flushes all the logs. +* +ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions+ rescues any exception returned by the application and renders nice exception pages if the request is local or if +config.consider_all_requests_local+ is set to +true+. If +config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions+ is set to +false+, exceptions will be raised regardless. +* +ActionDispatch::RequestId+ makes a unique X-Request-Id header available to the response and enables the +ActionDispatch::Request#uuid+ method. +* +ActionDispatch::RemoteIp+ checks for IP spoofing attacks. Configurable with the +config.action_dispatch.ip_spoofing_check+ and +config.action_dispatch.trusted_proxies+ settings. +* +Rack::Sendfile+ intercepts responses whose body is being served from a file and replaces it with a server specific X-Sendfile header. Configurable with +config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header+. +* +ActionDispatch::Callbacks+ runs the prepare callbacks before serving the request. * +ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ConnectionManagement+ cleans active connections after each request, unless the +rack.test+ key in the request environment is set to +true+. * +ActiveRecord::QueryCache+ caches all SELECT queries generated in a request. If any INSERT or UPDATE takes place then the cache is cleaned. * +ActionDispatch::Cookies+ sets cookies for the request. @@ -249,6 +266,8 @@ h4. Configuring Active Record * +config.active_record.whitelist_attributes+ will create an empty whitelist of attributes available for mass-assignment security for all models in your app. +* +config.active_record.identity_map+ controls whether the identity map is enabled, and is false by default. + The MySQL adapter adds one additional configuration option: * +ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter.emulate_booleans+ controls whether Active Record will consider all +tinyint(1)+ columns in a MySQL database to be booleans and is true by default. @@ -449,12 +468,31 @@ Rails has 5 initialization events which can be hooked into (listed in the order * +before_initialize+: This is run directly before the initialization process of the application occurs with the +:bootstrap_hook+ initializer near the beginning of the Rails initialization process. -* +to_prepare+: Run after the initializers are ran for all Railties (including the application itself), but before eager loading and the middleware stack is built. +* +to_prepare+: Run after the initializers are ran for all Railties (including the application itself), but before eager loading and the middleware stack is built. More importantly, will run upon every request in +development+, but only once (during boot-up) in +production+ and +test+. * +before_eager_load+: This is run directly before eager loading occurs, which is the default behaviour for the _production_ environment and not for the +development+ environment. * +after_initialize+: Run directly after the initialization of the application, but before the application initializers are run. +To define an event for these hooks, use the block syntax within a +Rails::Aplication+, +Rails::Railtie+ or +Rails::Engine+ subclass: + +<ruby> +module YourApp + class Application < Rails::Application + config.before_initialize do + # initialization code goes here + end + end +end +</ruby> + +Alternatively, you can also do it through the +config+ method on the +Rails.application+ object: + +<ruby> +Rails.application.config.before_initialize do + # initialization code goes here +end +</ruby> WARNING: Some parts of your application, notably observers and routing, are not yet set up at the point where the +after_initialize+ block is called. @@ -557,7 +595,7 @@ The error occurred while evaluating nil.each *+set_load_path+* This initializer runs before +bootstrap_hook+. Adds the +vendor+, +lib+, all directories of +app+ and any paths specified by +config.load_paths+ to +$LOAD_PATH+. -*+set_autoload_path+* This initializer runs before +bootstrap_hook+. Adds all sub-directories of +app+ and paths specified by +config.autoload_paths+ to +ActiveSupport::Dependencies.autoload_paths+. +*+set_autoload_paths+* This initializer runs before +bootstrap_hook+. Adds all sub-directories of +app+ and paths specified by +config.autoload_paths+ to +ActiveSupport::Dependencies.autoload_paths+. *+add_routing_paths+* Loads (by default) all +config/routes.rb+ files (in the application and railties, including engines) and sets up the routes for the application. @@ -592,11 +630,3 @@ The error occurred while evaluating nil.each *+set_routes_reloader+* Configures Action Dispatch to reload the routes file using +ActionDispatch::Callbacks.to_prepare+. *+disable_dependency_loading+* Disables the automatic dependency loading if the +config.cache_classes+ is set to true and +config.dependency_loading+ is set to false. - -h3. Changelog - -* December 3, 2010: Added initialization events for Rails 3 ("Ryan Bigg":http://ryanbigg.com) -* November 26, 2010: Removed all config settings not available in Rails 3 ("Ryan Bigg":http://ryanbigg.com) -* August 13, 2009: Updated with config syntax and added general configuration options by "John Pignata" -* January 3, 2009: First reasonably complete draft by "Mike Gunderloy":credits.html#mgunderloy -* November 5, 2008: Rough outline by "Mike Gunderloy":credits.html#mgunderloy |