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diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/engine.rb b/railties/lib/rails/engine.rb
index a338f31f15..1dede32dd4 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/engine.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/engine.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require 'pathname'
module Rails
# <tt>Rails::Engine</tt> allows you to wrap a specific Rails application or subset of
# functionality and share it with other applications or within a larger packaged application.
- # Since Rails 3.0, every <tt>Rails::Application</tt> is just an engine, which allows for simple
+ # Every <tt>Rails::Application</tt> is just an engine, which allows for simple
# feature and application sharing.
#
# Any <tt>Rails::Engine</tt> is also a <tt>Rails::Railtie</tt>, so the same
@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@ module Rails
#
# == Creating an Engine
#
- # In Rails versions prior to 3.0, your gems automatically behaved as engines, however,
- # this coupled Rails to Rubygems. Since Rails 3.0, if you want a gem to automatically
- # behave as an engine, you have to specify an +Engine+ for it somewhere inside
- # your plugin's +lib+ folder (similar to how we specify a +Railtie+):
+ # If you want a gem to behave as an engine, you have to specify an +Engine+
+ # for it somewhere inside your plugin's +lib+ folder (similar to how we
+ # specify a +Railtie+):
#
# # lib/my_engine.rb
# module MyEngine
@@ -69,10 +68,9 @@ module Rails
#
# == Paths
#
- # Since Rails 3.0, applications and engines have more flexible path configuration (as
- # opposed to the previous hardcoded path configuration). This means that you are not
- # required to place your controllers at <tt>app/controllers</tt>, but in any place
- # which you find convenient.
+ # Applications and engines have flexible path configuration, meaning that you
+ # are not required to place your controllers at <tt>app/controllers</tt>, but
+ # in any place which you find convenient.
#
# For example, let's suppose you want to place your controllers in <tt>lib/controllers</tt>.
# You can set that as an option:
@@ -206,42 +204,51 @@ module Rails
# With such an engine, everything that is inside the +MyEngine+ module will be isolated from
# the application.
#
- # Consider such controller:
+ # Consider this controller:
#
# module MyEngine
# class FooController < ActionController::Base
# end
# end
#
- # If an engine is marked as isolated, +FooController+ has access only to helpers from +Engine+ and
- # <tt>url_helpers</tt> from <tt>MyEngine::Engine.routes</tt>.
+ # If the +MyEngine+ engine is marked as isolated, +FooController+ only has
+ # access to helpers from +MyEngine+, and <tt>url_helpers</tt> from
+ # <tt>MyEngine::Engine.routes</tt>.
#
- # The next thing that changes in isolated engines is the behavior of routes. Normally, when you namespace
- # your controllers, you also need to do namespace all your routes. With an isolated engine,
- # the namespace is applied by default, so you can ignore it in routes:
+ # The next thing that changes in isolated engines is the behavior of routes.
+ # Normally, when you namespace your controllers, you also need to namespace
+ # the related routes. With an isolated engine, the engine's namespace is
+ # automatically applied, so you don't need to specify it explicity in your
+ # routes:
#
# MyEngine::Engine.routes.draw do
# resources :articles
# end
#
- # The routes above will automatically point to <tt>MyEngine::ArticlesController</tt>. Furthermore, you don't
- # need to use longer url helpers like <tt>my_engine_articles_path</tt>. Instead, you should simply use
- # <tt>articles_path</tt> as you would do with your application.
+ # If +MyEngine+ is isolated, The routes above will point to
+ # <tt>MyEngine::ArticlesController</tt>. You also don't need to use longer
+ # url helpers like +my_engine_articles_path+. Instead, you should simply use
+ # +articles_path+, like you would do with your main application.
#
- # To make that behavior consistent with other parts of the framework, an isolated engine also has influence on
- # <tt>ActiveModel::Naming</tt>. When you use a namespaced model, like <tt>MyEngine::Article</tt>, it will normally
- # use the prefix "my_engine". In an isolated engine, the prefix will be omitted in url helpers and
- # form fields for convenience.
+ # To make this behavior consistent with other parts of the framework,
+ # isolated engines also have an effect on <tt>ActiveModel::Naming</tt>. In a
+ # normal Rails app, when you use a namespaced model such as
+ # <tt>Namespace::Article</tt>, <tt>ActiveModel::Naming</tt> will generate
+ # names with the prefix "namespace". In an isolated engine, the prefix will
+ # be omitted in url helpers and form fields, for convenience.
#
- # polymorphic_url(MyEngine::Article.new) # => "articles_path"
+ # polymorphic_url(MyEngine::Article.new)
+ # # => "articles_path" # not "my_engine_articles_path"
#
# form_for(MyEngine::Article.new) do
# text_field :title # => <input type="text" name="article[title]" id="article_title" />
# end
#
- # Additionally, an isolated engine will set its name according to namespace, so
- # MyEngine::Engine.engine_name will be "my_engine". It will also set MyEngine.table_name_prefix
- # to "my_engine_", changing the MyEngine::Article model to use the my_engine_articles table.
+ # Additionally, an isolated engine will set its own name according to its
+ # namespace, so <tt>MyEngine::Engine.engine_name</tt> will return
+ # "my_engine". It will also set +MyEngine.table_name_prefix+ to "my_engine_",
+ # meaning for example that <tt>MyEngine::Article</tt> will use the
+ # +my_engine_articles+ database table by default.
#
# == Using Engine's routes outside Engine
#
@@ -296,7 +303,7 @@ module Rails
# helper MyEngine::SharedEngineHelper
# end
#
- # If you want to include all of the engine's helpers, you can use #helper method on an engine's
+ # If you want to include all of the engine's helpers, you can use the #helper method on an engine's
# instance:
#
# class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
@@ -312,7 +319,7 @@ module Rails
# Engines can have their own migrations. The default path for migrations is exactly the same
# as in application: <tt>db/migrate</tt>
#
- # To use engine's migrations in application you can use rake task, which copies them to
+ # To use engine's migrations in application you can use the rake task below, which copies them to
# application's dir:
#
# rake ENGINE_NAME:install:migrations
@@ -328,7 +335,7 @@ module Rails
#
# == Loading priority
#
- # In order to change engine's priority you can use +config.railties_order+ in main application.
+ # In order to change engine's priority you can use +config.railties_order+ in the main application.
# It will affect the priority of loading views, helpers, assets and all the other files
# related to engine or application.
#
@@ -405,7 +412,7 @@ module Rails
end
end
- # Finds engine with given path
+ # Finds engine with given path.
def find(path)
expanded_path = File.expand_path path
Rails::Engine.subclasses.each do |klass|
@@ -484,7 +491,7 @@ module Rails
helpers = Module.new
all = ActionController::Base.all_helpers_from_path(helpers_paths)
ActionController::Base.modules_for_helpers(all).each do |mod|
- helpers.send(:include, mod)
+ helpers.include(mod)
end
helpers
end
@@ -513,7 +520,7 @@ module Rails
def call(env)
env.merge!(env_config)
if env['SCRIPT_NAME']
- env["ROUTES_#{routes.object_id}_SCRIPT_NAME"] = env['SCRIPT_NAME'].dup
+ env[routes.env_key] = env['SCRIPT_NAME'].dup
end
app.call(env)
end
@@ -528,7 +535,7 @@ module Rails
# Defines the routes for this engine. If a block is given to
# routes, it is appended to the engine.
def routes
- @routes ||= ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet.new
+ @routes ||= ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet.new_with_config(config)
@routes.append(&Proc.new) if block_given?
@routes
end
@@ -559,7 +566,7 @@ module Rails
# and the load_once paths.
#
# This needs to be an initializer, since it needs to run once
- # per engine and get the engine as a block parameter
+ # per engine and get the engine as a block parameter.
initializer :set_autoload_paths, before: :bootstrap_hook do
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.autoload_paths.unshift(*_all_autoload_paths)
ActiveSupport::Dependencies.autoload_once_paths.unshift(*_all_autoload_once_paths)
@@ -599,12 +606,6 @@ module Rails
end
end
- initializer :append_assets_path, group: :all do |app|
- app.config.assets.paths.unshift(*paths["vendor/assets"].existent_directories)
- app.config.assets.paths.unshift(*paths["lib/assets"].existent_directories)
- app.config.assets.paths.unshift(*paths["app/assets"].existent_directories)
- end
-
initializer :prepend_helpers_path do |app|
if !isolated? || (app == self)
app.config.helpers_paths.unshift(*paths["app/helpers"].existent)