# lazy_load_hooks allows rails to lazily load a lot of components and thus making the app boot faster. Because of # this feature now there is no need to require ActiveRecord::Base at boot time purely to apply configuration. Instead # a hook is registered that applies configuration once ActiveRecord::Base is loaded. Here ActiveRecord::Base is used # as example but this feature can be applied elsewhere too. # # Here is an example where +on_load+ method is called to register a hook. # # initializer "active_record.initialize_timezone" do # ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do # self.time_zone_aware_attributes = true # self.default_timezone = :utc # end # end # # When the entirety of +activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb+ has been evaluated then +run_load_hooks+ is invoked. # The very last line of +activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb+ is: # # ActiveSupport.run_load_hooks(:active_record, ActiveRecord::Base) # module ActiveSupport @load_hooks = Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = [] } @loaded = {} def self.on_load(name, options = {}, &block) if base = @loaded[name] execute_hook(base, options, block) else @load_hooks[name] << [block, options] end end def self.execute_hook(base, options, block) if options[:yield] block.call(base) else base.instance_eval(&block) end end def self.run_load_hooks(name, base = Object) @loaded[name] = base @load_hooks[name].each do |hook, options| execute_hook(base, options, hook) end end end