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Diffstat (limited to 'railties/lib/dispatcher.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | railties/lib/dispatcher.rb | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb b/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb index 958710ad66..a3382b3fc6 100644 --- a/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb +++ b/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb @@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ # WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. #++ +# This class provides an interface for dispatching a CGI (or CGI-like) request +# to the appropriate controller and action. It also takes care of resetting +# the environment (when Dependencies.load? is true) after each request. class Dispatcher class << self + + # Dispatch the given CGI request, using the given session options, and + # emitting the output via the given output. def dispatch(cgi = CGI.new, session_options = ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS, output = $stdout) begin request, response = ActionController::CgiRequest.new(cgi, session_options), ActionController::CgiResponse.new(cgi) @@ -35,6 +41,9 @@ class Dispatcher end end + # Reset the application by clearing out loaded controllers, views, actions, + # mailers, and so forth. This allows them to be loaded again without having + # to restart the server (WEBrick, FastCGI, etc.). def reset_application! Controllers.clear! Dependencies.clear |