> With that all said, I've been wondering what some of the 1.9 changes > would mean to Rails. > > In particular, since there's also been recent discussion on ruby-talk > about it, I'm thinking about the change to the semantics of class > variables. In Ruby 1.9, class variables won't be inherited by > subclasses, instead it seems as if they act more like class instance > variables which are magically visible in instance methods. > > I notice that Rails seems to make significant use of class variables, > but I'm not sure how much it relies on their inheritablility. I > figure that this is a more appropriate question to raise here than on > the general rails group.
We make quite a bit of use of class variables and in some places (mostly configuration variables) we rely on them being available in subclasses. In the event that that's no longer the case we'll have to ship a maintenance release which works around this. -- Cheers Koz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
