[#6864] ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>

20 messages 2005/12/09
[#6870] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Florian_Gro=DF?= <florgro@...> 2005/12/12

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

[#6872] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/12

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

[#6873] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/12/12

On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:19 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

[#6874] Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways — ara.t.howard@... 2005/12/12

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

[#6891] Time.utc! and Time.localtime! — Daniel Hobe <hobe@...>

Writing a script yesterday I found out, much to my surprise, that the

16 messages 2005/12/14

[#6918] change to yaml in 1.8.4 — ara.t.howard@...

14 messages 2005/12/16

[#6934] 1.8.x, YAML, and release management — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>

I'm concerned that 1.8.3's acceptance of non-backwards-compatible

28 messages 2005/12/18

[#6996] Problems building 1.8.4 with VS8 C++ Express Edition (cl 14.00) — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>

Visual Studio C++ 2005 Express Edition (VS 8.0)

20 messages 2005/12/27

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

From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2005-12-12 23:41:07 UTC
List: ruby-core #6883
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On Dec 12, 2005, at 3:17 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
>> We can't tell whether two different paths refer to the same file  
>> so you'll
>> see double-requires depending on your load path.
>
>   why not?  a combination of expand_path, mtime, and an md5 of some/ 
> all of the
>   file would work on any platform.

Perhaps Rails should implement these heuristics since Ruby has them in
1.9 only?  That seems reasonable.  Do you have some pointers?  I wish
Pathname worked on Windows.


>> You shouldn't see them in the framework itself since it uses 'normal'
>> requires.  Otherwise we'd hit an inf. loop wrapping already- 
>> wrapped methods
>> (as Ara reports.)
>
>   i am, in fact, seeing it in the framework.

Right.


>> Unfortunately, I am unable to reproduce on 1.8.3 or .4p2 with  
>> Rails 1.0rc5
>> running Linux or MacOS X.  I will try 1.8.2 + FreeBSD shortly.
>>
>> Please note: there is a rails-core list for which this thread is well
>> suited.  (I hope this error is not an issue with Ruby itself.)
>>
>>  http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
>
>   thanks for the info.  i'll move the thread there with a link to  
> this thread
>   - anyone know how to provide a http link for this thread?  (who  
> archives it
>     online?)

   http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/6864

Best,
jeremy
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