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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