I do think this should be addressed. Why is the "+" operator
overridden in Pathname in the first place? Is there some benefit to
this way of concatenating that I'm not seeing? Rails.root + "/foo"
should append "/foo" to the end of Rails.root. That's what the code
says anyway.
Regards,
Ryan
On Dec 8, 4:37 am, Chris Cruft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know of at least two of my apps that will break. But I also agree
> with the sentiment of
> dealing with a slightly higher abstraction than just strings when
> working with the filesystem.
> So I'm willing to pay the (small) price and I thank you for bringing
> it to my attention!
>
> On Dec 7, 5:10 pm, "Mislav Marohnić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Changing Rails.root to a Pathname was great and all (I'm a strong believer
> > that us Rubyists shouldn't handle paths or URLs as String objects), but
> > there's one thing I've discovered just now that kinda ruins the joy.
> > With string paths, these two lines are equivalent:
>
> > "#{Rails.root}/tmp/foo"
> > Rails.root + "/tmp/foo"
>
> > Now that Rails.root is a Pathname, they do totally different things. While
> > the first one becomes "/path/to/app/tmp/foo", the second becomes just
> > "/tmp/foo" because Pathname overloads the "+" operator in a similar way that
> > URI does it.
>
> > Thoughts? Think this may break apps? It broke mine, but I'm not complaining
> > -- being subscribed to edge commits helps me resolve these kinds of issues
> > in a matter of seconds. To other folks upgrading to 2.3, this may take much
> > longer to track down.
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