Module: ActiveSupport::Dependencies::ModuleConstMissing

Defined in:
activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb

Overview

Module includes this module

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.append_features(base) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb', line 156

def self.append_features(base)
  base.class_eval do
    # Emulate #exclude via an ivar
    return if defined?(@_const_missing) && @_const_missing
    @_const_missing = instance_method(:const_missing)
    remove_method(:const_missing)
  end
  super
end

.exclude_from(base) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb', line 166

def self.exclude_from(base)
  base.class_eval do
    define_method :const_missing, @_const_missing
    @_const_missing = nil
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#const_missing(const_name, nesting = nil) ⇒ Object

Use const_missing to autoload associations so we don’t have to require_association when using single-table inheritance.



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# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb', line 175

def const_missing(const_name, nesting = nil)
  klass_name = name.presence || "Object"

  unless nesting
    # We'll assume that the nesting of Foo::Bar is ["Foo::Bar", "Foo"]
    # even though it might not be, such as in the case of
    # class Foo::Bar; Baz; end
    nesting = []
    klass_name.to_s.scan(/::|$/) { nesting.unshift $` }
  end

  # If there are multiple levels of nesting to search under, the top
  # level is the one we want to report as the lookup fail.
  error = nil

  nesting.each do |namespace|
    begin
      return Dependencies.load_missing_constant Inflector.constantize(namespace), const_name
    rescue NoMethodError then raise
    rescue NameError => e
      error ||= e
    end
  end

  # Raise the first error for this set. If this const_missing came from an
  # earlier const_missing, this will result in the real error bubbling
  # all the way up
  raise error
end

#unloadable(const_desc = self) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb', line 205

def unloadable(const_desc = self)
  super(const_desc)
end