From 5c2c6966a0d54b0ac515767cd0efab618ed95569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xavier Noria Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:03:54 +0200 Subject: Revert "Clarify and fix typos in Autoloading Disabled upgrade guide [ci skip]" Reason: See https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/26163#issuecomment-239703322 This reverts commit 39effc857e5c774670d6fad1a26aebcc33c51f0a. --- guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md') diff --git a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md index e3b0f42a95..2ac5a2188b 100644 --- a/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -147,18 +147,18 @@ documentation. ### Autoloading is Disabled After Booting in the Production Environment -Autoloading of paths in `config.autoload_paths` is now disabled after booting in -the production environment by default. Eager loading the application is part of -the boot process. Top-level constants should still work as they are still -autoloaded, meaning you don't need to manually require them. - -Constants in deeper places are only executed at runtime, like regular method -bodies. These should also still work because their Ruby definition files will be -eager loaded during the boot process as well. - -For the vast majority of applications this change requires no action. But in the -rare situation where your application needs autoloading in the production -environment, you can set `Rails.application.config.enable_dependency_loading` to +Autoloading is now disabled after booting in the production environment by +default. + +Eager loading the application is part of the boot process, so top-level +constants are fine and are still autoloaded, no need to require their files. + +Constants in deeper places only executed at runtime, like regular method bodies, +are also fine because the file defining them will have been eager loaded while booting. + +For the vast majority of applications this change needs no action. But in the +very rare event that your application needs autoloading while running in +production mode, set `Rails.application.config.enable_dependency_loading` to true. ### XML Serialization -- cgit v1.2.3