Class Rails::Configuration
In: vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb
Parent: Object

The Configuration class holds all the parameters for the Initializer and ships with defaults that suites most Rails applications. But it‘s possible to overwrite everything. Usually, you‘ll create an Configuration file implicitly through the block running on the Initializer, but it‘s also possible to create the Configuration instance in advance and pass it in like this:

  config = Rails::Configuration.new
  Rails::Initializer.run(:process, config)

Methods

Attributes

action_controller  [RW]  A stub for setting options on ActionController::Base
action_mailer  [RW]  A stub for setting options on ActionMailer::Base
action_view  [RW]  A stub for setting options on ActionView::Base
active_record  [RW]  A stub for setting options on ActiveRecord::Base
active_resource  [RW]  A stub for setting options on ActiveRecord::Base
cache_classes  [RW]  Whether or not classes should be cached (set to false if you want application classes to be reloaded on each request)
controller_paths  [RW]  The list of paths that should be searched for controllers. (Defaults to app/controllers and components.)
database_configuration_file  [RW]  The path to the database configuration file to use. (Defaults to config/database.yml.)
frameworks  [RW]  The list of rails framework components that should be loaded. (Defaults to :active_record, :action_controller, :action_view, :action_mailer, and :active_resource).
load_once_paths  [RW]  An array of paths from which Rails will automatically load from only once. All elements of this array must also be in load_paths.
load_paths  [RW]  An array of additional paths to prepend to the load path. By default, all app, lib, vendor and mock paths are included in this list.
log_level  [RW]  The log level to use for the default Rails logger. In production mode, this defaults to :info. In development mode, it defaults to :debug.
log_path  [RW]  The path to the log file to use. Defaults to log/#{environment}.log (e.g. log/development.log or log/production.log).
logger  [RW]  The specific logger to use. By default, a logger will be created and initialized using log_path and log_level, but a programmer may specifically set the logger to use via this accessor and it will be used directly.
plugin_loader  [RW]  The class that handles loading each plugin. Defaults to Rails::Plugin::Loader, but a sub class would have access to fine grained modification of the loading behavior. See the implementation of Rails::Plugin::Loader for more details.
plugin_locators  [RW]  The classes that handle finding the desired plugins that you‘d like to load for your application. By default it is the Rails::Plugin::FileSystemLocator which finds plugins to load in vendor/plugins. You can hook into gem location by subclassing Rails::Plugin::Locator and adding it onto the list of plugin_locators.
plugin_paths  [RW]  The path to the root of the plugins directory. By default, it is in vendor/plugins.
plugins  [R]  The list of plugins to load. If this is set to nil, all plugins will be loaded. If this is set to [], no plugins will be loaded. Otherwise, plugins will be loaded in the order specified.
root_path  [R]  The application‘s base directory.
view_path  [RW]  The root of the application‘s views. (Defaults to app/views.)
whiny_nils  [RW]  Set to true if you want to be warned (noisily) when you try to invoke any method of nil. Set to false for the standard Ruby behavior.

Public Class methods

Create a new Configuration instance, initialized with the default values.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 460
460:     def initialize
461:       set_root_path!
462: 
463:       self.frameworks                   = default_frameworks
464:       self.load_paths                   = default_load_paths
465:       self.load_once_paths              = default_load_once_paths
466:       self.log_path                     = default_log_path
467:       self.log_level                    = default_log_level
468:       self.view_path                    = default_view_path
469:       self.controller_paths             = default_controller_paths
470:       self.cache_classes                = default_cache_classes
471:       self.whiny_nils                   = default_whiny_nils
472:       self.plugins                      = default_plugins
473:       self.plugin_paths                 = default_plugin_paths
474:       self.plugin_locators              = default_plugin_locators
475:       self.plugin_loader                = default_plugin_loader
476:       self.database_configuration_file  = default_database_configuration_file
477: 
478:       for framework in default_frameworks
479:         self.send("#{framework}=", Rails::OrderedOptions.new)
480:       end
481:     end

Public Instance methods

Adds a block which will be executed after rails has been fully initialized. Useful for per-environment configuration which depends on the framework being fully initialized.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 525
525:     def after_initialize(&after_initialize_block)
526:       after_initialize_blocks << after_initialize_block if after_initialize_block
527:     end

Returns the blocks added with Configuration#after_initialize

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 530
530:     def after_initialize_blocks
531:       @after_initialize_blocks ||= []
532:     end

Deprecated options:

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 449
449:     def breakpoint_server(_ = nil)
450:       $stderr.puts %(
451:       *******************************************************************
452:       * config.breakpoint_server has been deprecated and has no effect. *
453:       *******************************************************************
454:       )
455:     end
breakpoint_server=(_ = nil)

Alias for breakpoint_server

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 543
543:     def builtin_directories
544:       # Include builtins only in the development environment.
545:       (environment == 'development') ? Dir["#{RAILTIES_PATH}/builtin/*/"] : []
546:     end

Loads and returns the contents of the database_configuration_file. The contents of the file are processed via ERB before being sent through YAML::load.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 506
506:     def database_configuration
507:       YAML::load(ERB.new(IO.read(database_configuration_file)).result)
508:     end

Return the currently selected environment. By default, it returns the value of the RAILS_ENV constant.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 518
518:     def environment
519:       ::RAILS_ENV
520:     end

The path to the current environment‘s file (development.rb, etc.). By default the file is at config/environments/#{environment}.rb.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 512
512:     def environment_path
513:       "#{root_path}/config/environments/#{environment}.rb"
514:     end

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 548
548:     def framework_paths
549:       paths = %w(railties railties/lib activesupport/lib)
550:       paths << 'actionpack/lib' if frameworks.include? :action_controller or frameworks.include? :action_view
551:       
552:       [:active_record, :action_mailer, :active_resource, :action_web_service].each do |framework|
553:         paths << "#{framework.to_s.gsub('_', '')}/lib" if frameworks.include? framework
554:       end
555:       
556:       paths.map { |dir| "#{framework_root_path}/#{dir}" }.select { |dir| File.directory?(dir) }
557:     end

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 429
429:     def plugins=(plugins)
430:       @plugins = plugins.nil? ? nil : plugins.map { |p| p.to_sym }
431:     end

Set the root_path to RAILS_ROOT and canonicalize it.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 484
484:     def set_root_path!
485:       raise 'RAILS_ROOT is not set' unless defined?(::RAILS_ROOT)
486:       raise 'RAILS_ROOT is not a directory' unless File.directory?(::RAILS_ROOT)
487: 
488:       @root_path =
489:         # Pathname is incompatible with Windows, but Windows doesn't have
490:         # real symlinks so File.expand_path is safe.
491:         if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(:?mswin|mingw)/
492:           File.expand_path(::RAILS_ROOT)
493: 
494:         # Otherwise use Pathname#realpath which respects symlinks.
495:         else
496:           Pathname.new(::RAILS_ROOT).realpath.to_s
497:         end
498:       
499:       Object.const_set(:RELATIVE_RAILS_ROOT, ::RAILS_ROOT.dup) unless defined?(::RELATIVE_RAILS_ROOT)
500:       ::RAILS_ROOT.replace @root_path
501:     end

Add a preparation callback that will run before every request in development mode, or before the first request in production.

See Dispatcher#to_prepare.

[Source]

     # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 538
538:     def to_prepare(&callback)
539:       require 'dispatcher' unless defined?(::Dispatcher)
540:       Dispatcher.to_prepare(&callback)
541:     end

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