This object is an extended hash that behaves as root of the Rails::Paths system. It allows you to collect information about how you want to structure your application paths by a Hash like API. It requires you to give a physical path on initialization.

root = Root.new "/rails"
root.add "app/controllers", :eager_load => true

The command above creates a new root object and add “app/controllers” as a path. This means we can get a +Rails::Paths::Path+ object back like below:

path = root["app/controllers"]
path.eager_load?               # => true
path.is_a?(Rails::Paths::Path) # => true

The Path object is simply an array and allows you to easily add extra paths:

path.is_a?(Array) # => true
path.inspect      # => ["app/controllers"]

path << "lib/controllers"
path.inspect      # => ["app/controllers", "lib/controllers"]

Notice that when you add a path using add, the path object created already contains the path with the same path value given to add. In some situations, you may not want this behavior, so you can give :with as option.

root.add "config/routes", :with => "config/routes.rb"
root["config/routes"].inspect # => ["config/routes.rb"]

The add method accepts the following options as arguments: #eager_load, autoload, #autoload_once and glob.

Finally, the Path object also provides a few helpers:

root = Root.new "/rails"
root.add "app/controllers"

root["app/controllers"].expanded # => ["/rails/app/controllers"]
root["app/controllers"].existent # => ["/rails/app/controllers"]

Check the Rails::Paths::Path documentation for more information.

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Class Public methods
new(path)

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 49
def initialize(path)
  raise "Argument should be a String of the physical root path" if path.is_a?(Array)
  @current = nil
  @path = path
  @root = self
  super()
end
Instance Public methods
[]=(path, value)

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 57
def []=(path, value)
  value = Path.new(self, path, value) unless value.is_a?(Path)
  super(path, value)
end
add(path, options={})

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 62
def add(path, options={})
  with = options[:with] || path
  self[path] = Path.new(self, path, with, options)
end
all_paths()

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 67
def all_paths
  values.tap { |v| v.uniq! }
end
autoload_once()

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 71
def autoload_once
  filter_by(:autoload_once?)
end
autoload_paths()

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 79
def autoload_paths
  filter_by(:autoload?)
end
eager_load()

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 75
def eager_load
  filter_by(:eager_load?)
end
load_paths()

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 83
def load_paths
  filter_by(:load_path?)
end
Instance Protected methods
filter_by(constraint)

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# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 89
def filter_by(constraint)
  all = []
  all_paths.each do |path|
    if path.send(constraint)
      paths  = path.existent
      paths -= path.children.map { |p| p.send(constraint) ? [] : p.existent }.flatten
      all.concat(paths)
    end
  end
  all.uniq!
  all
end