Ruby on Rails

On 22 November 2013 10:27, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 7:48:18 AM UTC, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 22 November 2013 05:15, Greg Willits <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The problem I am seeing is that global_logger is being run only one
>> > time. In all my previous versions (as a Rails 2 plugin, and a Rails 3
>> > gem) that class method runs from scratch every page load and I count on
>> > that behavior to do some things. In this new Rails 4 setup, it is
>> > running the first time and that's it. The rest of my logger code
>> > (writing messages from subsequent controllers) seems to work fine.
>>
>> I am sure you are mistaken. That code will only be interpreted when
>> the class is loaded (which, by default, in development mode will be at
>> every action, but in production will only be when the server is
>> started). That is true in Rails 3 and Rails 4. Try putting a puts
>> statement above your global_logger line in your rails 3 app and you
>> will see that this is correct. Of course it is entirely possible that
>> the effects of calling global_logger may have changed, that depends on
>> what is in that method.
>>
>
> The development mode code reloader is much smarter as of rails 3.2 - it no
> longer reloads everything on every request. It will only reload a file if
> it thinks it needs to (although it almost certainly errs on the side of
> caution). If you want something to run on every request, use a
> before/after/around filter

Thanks for that clarification Fred, that explains why the OP is seeing
a change in development mode. I presume the situation in production
has not changed, so in that case in rails 3 global_logger would only
have been run on server start and that is still the case.

Colin

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuxxzHXgvjz94xPxZo7v7ox06RPuRnMsQPVFT2MescZnA%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.