Don't do that.  The class has to load at the point where you reference your 
constant; If you did that, when you're partway through loading one class, Ruby 
has to go off and load the other class.  That's not a good thing.


On 29/11/2012, at 11:26 , Gary Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/8357
> 
> I have a ton of models where class_name is specified in associations and have 
> been thinking for a while about doing something about it other than just 
> using class_name: TheClassName which saves a few quote chars, but it still 
> has to be changed to string and re-constantized if do it with class_name, so 
> why not save 5 more chars and just use :class. At least, that was the thought.
> 
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