Merge pull request #28417 from schneems/schneems/symlink-failures

Raise when using a bad symlink

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/paths.rb b/railties/lib/rails/paths.rb
index af3be10a31..6bdb673215 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/paths.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/paths.rb
@@ -205,7 +205,14 @@ module Rails
 
       # Returns all expanded paths but only if they exist in the filesystem.
       def existent
-        expanded.select { |f| File.exist?(f) }
+        expanded.select do |f|
+          does_exist = File.exist?(f)
+
+          if !does_exist && File.symlink?(f)
+            raise "File #{f.inspect} is a symlink that does not point to a valid file"
+          end
+          does_exist
+        end
       end
 
       def existent_directories