From 194b965036776e002332914fa2612765be89e3b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vijay Dev Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:33:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] pass over the autoloading guide [ci skip] --- .../source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md index c54816c4c2..c39210383b 100644 --- a/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md +++ b/guides/source/constant_autoloading_and_reloading.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Constant Autoloading and Reloading -================================== +Autoloading and Reloading Constants +=================================== This guide documents how constant autoloading and reloading works. @@ -186,8 +186,8 @@ Project.name # => "Project" ``` Constant assignment has a special rule to make that happen: if the object -being assigned is an anonymous class or module, Ruby sets its name to be the -one the constant. +being assigned is an anonymous class or module, Ruby sets the object's name to +the name of the constant. INFO. From then on, what happens to the constant and the instance does not matter. For example, the constant could be deleted, the class object could be @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ assignment. Thus, when one informally says "the `String` class", that really means: the class object stored in the constant called "String" in the class object stored in the `Object` constant. `String` is otherwise an ordinary Ruby constant and -everything related to constants applies to it, resolution algorithms, etc. +everything related to constants such as resolution algorithms applies to it. Likewise, in the controller @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ In particular, `Colors::RED` is totally unrelated to any other `RED` constant that may live in any other class or module object. If there were any, they would have separate entries in their respective constant tables. -Put special attention in the previous paragraphs to the distinction between +Pay special attention in the previous paragraphs to the distinction between class and module objects, constant names, and value objects associated to them in constant tables. @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ default it contains: Also, this collection is configurable via `config.autoload_paths`. For example, `lib` was in the list years ago, but no longer is. An application can opt-in -throwing this to `config/application.rb`: +by adding this to `config/application.rb`: ```ruby config.autoload_paths += "#{Rails.root}/lib" @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ end ### Autoloading and STI -Single Table Inheritance (STI) is a feature of Active Record that easies +Single Table Inheritance (STI) is a feature of Active Record that enables storing a hierarchy of models in one single table. The API of such models is aware of the hierarchy and encapsulates some common needs. For example, given these classes: