Poetry of Programming

Its about Ruby on Rails – Kiran Soumya

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ROR : Important Points to be noted

> Difference between Ruby load and require:

Ruby programs may be broken up into multiple files, and the most natural way to partition a program is to place each nontrivial class or module into a separate file. These separate files can then be reassembled into a single program (and, if well-designed, can be reused by other programs) using require or load. These are global functions defined in Kernel, but are used like language keywords. The same require method is also used for loading files from the standard library.

load and require serve similar purposes, though require is much more commonly used than load. Both functions can load and execute a specified file of Ruby source code. If the file to load is specified with an absolute path, or is relative to ~ (the user’s home directory), then that specific file is loaded. Usually, however, the file is specified as a relative path, and load and require search for it relative to the directories of Ruby’s load path (details on the load path appear below).

Despite these overall similarities, there are important differences between load and require:

  • In addition to loading source code, require can also load binary extensions to Ruby. Binary extensions are, of course, implementation-dependent, but in C-based implementations, they typically take the form of shared library files with extensions like .so or .dll.

  • load expects a complete filename including an extension. require is usually passed a library name, with no extension, rather than a filename. In that case, it searches for a file that has the library name as its base name and an appropriate source or native library extension. If a directory contains both an .rb source file and a binary extension file, require will load the source file instead of the binary file.

  • load can load the same file multiple times. require tries to prevent multiple loads of the same file. (require can be fooled, however, if you use two different, but equivalent, paths to the same library file. In Ruby 1.9, require expands relative paths to absolute paths, which makes it somewhat harder to fool.) require keeps track of the files that have been loaded by appending them to the global array $" (also known as $LOADED_FEATURES). load does not do this.

  • load loads the specified file at the current $SAFE level. require loads the specified library with $SAFE set to 0, even if the code that called require has a higher value for that variable.

> To revert migrations to different version:

rake db:migrate version=19

> Task to delete all migration during deployment:

The delete command is just a convenience for executing rm via run. It just attempts to do an rm -f (note the -f! Use with caution!) on the remote server(s), for the named file. To do a recursive delete, pass :recursive => true:

Demonstrating delete [ruby]

delete #{release_path}/db/migrate“, :recursive => true

 

 

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