Ruby on Rails

On Jan 29, 3:47 pm, tom <tomabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i see the line
>
> if defined?(Rails)
>
> more and more in gems and other require statements. right now im
> looking at a gem and the line
> if defined?(Rails)
>
> is being called prior the first constructor of a class. this seems to
> be kinda related to autoload rails things, but im not sure.
> what is it? if someone could shed some light on it. thx

It's checking whether Rails is defined. Typically you might do this if
your gem/plugin had some rails features that you don't want to load
(or can't be loaded) if your gem is being used in a non Rails context

Fred

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