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Constants no longer available at load in 2.1.0
Reported by Daniel Lockhart | June 18th, 2008 @ 01:03 AM
I have a constant PLATFORM_INTERFACE assigned in my environment.rb. This constant references a module that is included in many other models throughout my app. (It is a constant as the module varies depending on the platform the app is running on)
For example, my application controller has the line:
include PLATFORM_INTERFACE
Prior to 2.1, this worked fine. However, as of 2.1 it throws an uninitialized constant error whenever it is included in a class: for example
'uninitialized constant ApplicationController::PLATFORM_INTERFACE'
So it appears that constant that is assigned in environment.rb is not available when the application controller (as well as all other controllers and models) are loaded. There was no mention of a change in the load order for 2.1, so I am going to assume it is a bug.
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Daniel Lockhart June 18th, 2008 @ 06:20 PM
So after more investigation, it turns out the problem only occurs in plugins as long as you preface the constant with :: (The :: was not necessary pre-2.1.0) The error still occurs when a plugin tries to reference the constant, whether prefixed with :: or not.
A workaround is to use .send :include in the environment.rb.
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josh June 18th, 2008 @ 06:24 PM
- State changed from “new” to “invalid”
- Milestone cleared.
Avoid initializing stuff in environment.rb. Use the initializers folder.
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