stop ascending at the longest common subpath

This commit also bases everything on Pathname internally.

activesupport/lib/active_support/file_evented_update_checker.rb

@@ -3,17 +3,19 @@ require 'set'
 require 'pathname'
 
 module ActiveSupport
-  class FileEventedUpdateChecker
+  class FileEventedUpdateChecker #:nodoc: all
     def initialize(files, dirs={}, &block)
-      @files = files.map {|f| expand_path(f)}.to_set
+      @ph    = PathHelper.new
+      @files = files.map {|f| @ph.xpath(f)}.to_set
 
       @dirs = {}
       dirs.each do |dir, exts|
-        @dirs[expand_path(dir)] = Array(exts).map(&:to_s)
+        @dirs[@ph.xpath(dir)] = Array(exts).map {|ext| @ph.normalize_extension(ext)}
       end
 
       @block    = block
       @modified = false
+      @lcsp     = @ph.longest_common_subpath(@dirs.keys)
 
       if (watch_dirs = base_directories).any?
         Listen.to(*watch_dirs, &method(:changed)).start
@@ -39,35 +41,31 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
     private
 
-    def expand_path(fname)
-      File.expand_path(fname)
-    end
-
     def changed(modified, added, removed)
-      return if updated?
-
-      if (modified + added + removed).any? {|f| watching?(f)}
-        @modified = true
+      unless updated?
+        @modified = (modified + added + removed).any? {|f| watching?(f)}
       end
     end
 
     def watching?(file)
-      file = expand_path(file)
-      return true if @files.member?(file)
+      file = @ph.xpath(file)
 
-      file = Pathname.new(file)
+      return true  if @files.member?(file)
       return false if file.directory?
 
-      ext = file.extname.sub(/\A\./, '')
+      ext = @ph.normalize_extension(file.extname)
       dir = file.dirname
 
       loop do
-        if @dirs.fetch(dir.to_path, []).include?(ext)
+        if @dirs.fetch(dir, []).include?(ext)
           break true
         else
-          if dir.root? # TODO: find a common parent directory in initialize
-            break false
+          if @lcsp
+            break false if dir == @lcsp
+          else
+            break false if dir.root?
           end
+
           dir = dir.parent
         end
       end
@@ -76,19 +74,53 @@ module ActiveSupport
     # TODO: Better return a list of non-nested directories.
     def base_directories
       [].tap do |bd|
-        bd.concat @files.map {|f| existing_parent(File.dirname(f))}
-        bd.concat @dirs.keys.map {|dir| existing_parent(dir)}
+        bd.concat @files.map {|f| @ph.existing_parent(f.dirname)}
+        bd.concat @dirs.keys.map {|dir| @ph.existing_parent(dir)}
         bd.compact!
         bd.uniq!
       end
     end
 
-    def existing_parent(dir)
-      dir = Pathname.new(expand_path(dir))
+    class PathHelper
+      def xpath(path)
+        Pathname.new(path).expand_path
+      end
 
+      def normalize_extension(ext)
+        ext.to_s.sub(/\A\./, '')
+      end
+
+      # Given a collection of Pathname objects returns the longest subpath
+      # common to all of them, or +nil+ if there is none.
+      def longest_common_subpath(paths)
+        return if paths.empty?
+
+        csp = Pathname.new(paths[0])
+
+        paths[1..-1].each do |path|
+          loop do
+            break if path.ascend do |ascendant|
+              break true if ascendant == csp
+            end
+
+            if csp.root?
+              # A root directory is not an ascendant of path. This may happen
+              # if there are paths in different drives on Windows.
+              return
+            else
+              csp = csp.parent
+            end
+          end
+        end
+
+        csp
+      end
+
+      # Returns the deepest existing ascendant, which could be the argument itself.
+      def existing_parent(dir)
         loop do
           if dir.directory?
-          break dir.to_path
+            break dir
           else
             if dir.root?
               # Edge case in which not even the root exists. For example, Windows
@@ -103,3 +135,4 @@ module ActiveSupport
       end
     end
   end
+end

activesupport/test/file_evented_update_checker_test.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'abstract_unit'
 require 'fileutils'
 require 'thread'
+require 'pathname'
 require 'file_update_checker_with_enumerable_test_cases'
 
 class FileEventedUpdateCheckerTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
@@ -10,3 +11,62 @@ class FileEventedUpdateCheckerTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     ActiveSupport::FileEventedUpdateChecker.new(files, dirs, &block)
   end
 end
+
+class FileEventedUpdateCheckerPathHelperTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  def pn(path)
+    Pathname.new(path)
+  end
+
+  setup do
+    @ph = ActiveSupport::FileEventedUpdateChecker::PathHelper.new
+  end
+
+  test '#xpath returns the expanded path as a Pathname object' do
+    assert_equal pn(__FILE__).expand_path, @ph.xpath(__FILE__)
+  end
+
+  test '#normalize_extension returns a bare extension as is' do
+    assert_equal 'rb', @ph.normalize_extension('rb')
+  end
+
+  test '#normalize_extension removes a leading dot' do
+    assert_equal 'rb', @ph.normalize_extension('.rb')
+  end
+
+  test '#normalize_extension supports symbols' do
+    assert_equal 'rb', @ph.normalize_extension(:rb)
+  end
+
+  test '#longest_common_subpath finds the longest common subpath, if there is one' do
+    paths = %w(
+      /foo/bar
+      /foo/baz
+      /foo/bar/baz/woo/zoo
+    ).map {|path| pn(path)}
+
+    assert_equal pn('/foo'), @ph.longest_common_subpath(paths)
+  end
+
+  test '#longest_common_subpath returns the root directory as an edge case' do
+    paths = %w(
+      /foo/bar
+      /foo/baz
+      /foo/bar/baz/woo/zoo
+      /wadus
+    ).map {|path| pn(path)}
+
+    assert_equal pn('/'), @ph.longest_common_subpath(paths)
+  end
+
+  test '#longest_common_subpath returns nil for an empty collection' do
+    assert_nil @ph.longest_common_subpath([])
+  end
+
+  test '#existing_parent returns the most specific existing ascendant' do
+    wd = Pathname.getwd
+
+    assert_equal wd, @ph.existing_parent(wd)
+    assert_equal wd, @ph.existing_parent(wd.join('non-existing/directory'))
+    assert_equal pn('/'), @ph.existing_parent(pn('/non-existing/directory'))
+  end
+end