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

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2005, at 2:10 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> I'm *assuming* the change is that we've updated the vendor/rails/ directory 
>> to a more recent version.  I'm still running Ruby 1.8.2, but was when I was 
>> seeing the errors too.  Might make sure your Rails is up-to-date.
>
> As usual, I was wrong.  The /vendor/rails/ is the same version.  My partner 
> changed the constant definitions to avoid the warnings:
>
> OUR_CONST = ... unless const_defined? "OUR_CONST"
>
> So, I added a warning statement above those declarations and I see that it is 
> indeed executed twice.  While I was in there, I noticed that controller is a 
> base controller that at least one other controller inherits from.  Testing a 
> theory, I added a warning to an uninherited controller and this is what I see 
> in my test output:
>
> ...
> Loading uninherited controller.
> Loading base controller.
> Loading base controller.
> ...
>
> Something is fishy there.  Does Rails munge const_missing() by chance?

it does.  i haven't read where, however... somthing to do with dependancies
injection or something...

-a
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