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Diffstat (limited to 'activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb index db9f5d4baa..19d4ff51d7 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/module/introspection' require 'active_support/core_ext/module/anonymous' require 'active_support/core_ext/module/qualified_const' require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank' +require 'active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting' require 'active_support/core_ext/load_error' require 'active_support/core_ext/name_error' require 'active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with' @@ -198,9 +199,19 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: Dependencies.require_or_load(file_name) end + # 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) - raise ArgumentError, "the file name must be a String -- you passed #{file_name.inspect}" + raise ArgumentError, "the file name must either be a String or implement #to_path -- you passed #{file_name.inspect}" end Dependencies.depend_on(file_name, message) |