Merge pull request #43722 from Shopify/deliberate-railties-ordering

Explicitly order Railties by load order

railties/lib/rails/railtie.rb

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ module Rails
       delegate :config, to: :instance
 
       def subclasses
-        super.reject(&:abstract_railtie?)
+        super.reject(&:abstract_railtie?).sort
       end
 
       def rake_tasks(&blk)
@@ -191,6 +191,23 @@ module Rails
         instance.configure(&block)
       end
 
+      def <=>(other) # :nodoc:
+        load_index <=> other.load_index
+      end
+
+      def inherited(subclass)
+        subclass.increment_load_index
+        super
+      end
+
+      protected
+        attr_reader :load_index
+
+        def increment_load_index
+          @@load_counter ||= 0
+          @load_index = (@@load_counter += 1)
+        end
+
       private
         def generate_railtie_name(string)
           ActiveSupport::Inflector.underscore(string).tr("/", "_")

railties/test/railties/engine_test.rb

@@ -1312,9 +1312,28 @@ en:
       get("/assets/bar.js")
       assert_match "// App's bar js", last_response.body.strip
 
-      # ensure that railties are not added twice
-      railties = Rails.application.send(:ordered_railties).map(&:class)
-      assert_equal railties, railties.uniq
+      assert_equal <<~EXPECTED, Rails.application.send(:ordered_railties).flatten.map(&:class).map(&:name).join("\n") << "\n"
+        I18n::Railtie
+        ActiveSupport::Railtie
+        ActionDispatch::Railtie
+        ActiveModel::Railtie
+        ActionController::Railtie
+        ActiveRecord::Railtie
+        GlobalID::Railtie
+        ActiveJob::Railtie
+        ActionMailer::Railtie
+        Rails::TestUnitRailtie
+        Sprockets::Railtie
+        ActionView::Railtie
+        ActiveStorage::Engine
+        ActionCable::Engine
+        ActionMailbox::Engine
+        ActionText::Engine
+        Bukkits::Engine
+        Importmap::Engine
+        AppTemplate::Application
+        Blog::Engine
+      EXPECTED
     end
 
     test "railties_order adds :all with lowest priority if not given" do