Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Florian Growrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>
>> i'm on a box with latest (today's) ruby and rails.  i started seeing 
>> bizzare
>> errors with infinite stack recursion for a simple
>> 
>>   ModelName.find :all
>> 
>> the code is kinda deep, but you can see how the problem occurs by looking 
>> at
>> 
>>   activerecord-1.13.1/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb +215
>
> Are you certain the file containing the alias_method() call isn't getting 
> executed twice? Try inserting a puts() to be sure.

i added

   $i ||= 0
   STDERR.puts  $i
   $i += 1

to the code and ./script/console now reports

  0
  1
  0
  1

bizzare.  i think rails may be at fault here... yet older ruby versions don't exhibit issue... maybe chance.

-a
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