From: "NARUSE, Yui" <naruse@...>
Date: 2011-12-04T12:34:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41470] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5690][Open] Module#qualified_const_get

(2011/12/01 5:59), Yehuda Katz wrote:
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> Yehuda Katz
> (ph) 718.877.1325
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> 2011/11/30 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org <mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org>>
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>     Hi,
> 
>     In message "Re: [ruby-core:41408] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5690][Open] Module#qualified_const_get"
>        on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:52:36 +0900, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com <mailto:wycats@gmail.com>> writes:
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>     |> * is there any use-case for this method?
>     |
>     |We use it often in Rails.
> 
>     Could you show us the concrete example?  It is difficult for me to
>     imagine.
> 
> 
> One case is to convert path names (file system paths) into constants.
> 
> In general, Rails uses inflections to convert names from different contexts. In the router, for instance, "foo/bar" is used to represent namespaces, which are then converted into "Foo::Bar" and then Foo::Bar.

"concrete exapmle" needs "what is the router?" and "when the router is used?".

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