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| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb index 6ca5d76fbb..df13fef0a4 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb @@ -198,7 +198,15 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: Dependencies.require_or_load(file_name) end - # Files required this way can be reloaded in development mode + # Interprets a file using <tt>mechanism</tt> and marks its defined + # constants as autoloaded. <tt>file_name</tt> can be either a string or + # respond to <tt>to_path</tt>. + # + # Use this method in code that absolutely needs a certain constant to be + # defined at that point. A typical use case is to make constant name + # resolution deterministic for constants with the same relative name in + # different namespaces whose evaluation would depend on load order + # otherwise. def require_dependency(file_name, message = "No such file to load -- %s") file_name = file_name.to_path if file_name.respond_to?(:to_path) unless file_name.is_a?(String) |