On 22 November 2013 10:27, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday, November 22, 2013 7:48:18 AM UTC, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 22 November 2013 05:15, Greg Willits <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > The problem I am seeing is that global_logger is being run only one >> > time. In all my previous versions (as a Rails 2 plugin, and a Rails 3 >> > gem) that class method runs from scratch every page load and I count on >> > that behavior to do some things. In this new Rails 4 setup, it is >> > running the first time and that's it. The rest of my logger code >> > (writing messages from subsequent controllers) seems to work fine. >> >> I am sure you are mistaken. That code will only be interpreted when >> the class is loaded (which, by default, in development mode will be at >> every action, but in production will only be when the server is >> started). That is true in Rails 3 and Rails 4. Try putting a puts >> statement above your global_logger line in your rails 3 app and you >> will see that this is correct. Of course it is entirely possible that >> the effects of calling global_logger may have changed, that depends on >> what is in that method. >> > > The development mode code reloader is much smarter as of rails 3.2 - it no > longer reloads everything on every request. It will only reload a file if > it thinks it needs to (although it almost certainly errs on the side of > caution). If you want something to run on every request, use a > before/after/around filter
Thanks for that clarification Fred, that explains why the OP is seeing a change in development mode. I presume the situation in production has not changed, so in that case in rails 3 global_logger would only have been run on server start and that is still the case. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuxxzHXgvjz94xPxZo7v7ox06RPuRnMsQPVFT2MescZnA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
