The only way to do this in a pure Ruby way is to poll all the files in a thread. I'm not sure if this would be more or less performant. We tried this in Merb and people were annoyed by the constant CPU usage (3-10%) used by polling the entire tree. Something like watchr could make this better.
If you're interested, a good solution would probably be to make the logic for deciding to reload everything (in Rails, this is "running the to_prepare hooks") pluggable, such that people could experiment with using watchr et al. I'll happily give you a tour of the affected areas if you're interested. Yehuda Katz Architect | Engine Yard (ph) 718.877.1325 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:40 AM, rogerdpack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Request (unless rails already does this...) > > Currently with active_support it reloads the class chain at the > beginning of each incoming HTTP request. > > Suggestion: reload the class chain only if a file in a lib path *has > changed* > Thoughts? > -r > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-core%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
