This object is an extended hash that behaves as root of the Rails::Paths system. It allows you to collect information about how you want to structure your application paths through a Hash-like API. It requires you to give a physical path on initialization.

root = Root.new "/rails"
root.add "app/controllers", eager_load: true

The above command creates a new root object and adds “app/controllers” as a path. This means we can get a Rails::Paths::Path object back like below:

path = root["app/controllers"]
path.eager_load?               # => true
path.is_a?(Rails::Paths::Path) # => true

The Path object is simply an enumerable and allows you to easily add extra paths:

path.is_a?(Enumerable) # => true
path.to_ary.inspect    # => ["app/controllers"]

path << "lib/controllers"
path.to_ary.inspect    # => ["app/controllers", "lib/controllers"]

Notice that when you add a path using add, the path object created already contains the path with the same path value given to add. In some situations, you may not want this behavior, so you can give :with as option.

root.add "config/routes", with: "config/routes.rb"
root["config/routes"].inspect # => ["config/routes.rb"]

The add method accepts the following options as arguments: #eager_load, autoload, #autoload_once, and glob.

Finally, the Path object also provides a few helpers:

root = Root.new "/rails"
root.add "app/controllers"

root["app/controllers"].expanded # => ["/rails/app/controllers"]
root["app/controllers"].existent # => ["/rails/app/controllers"]

Check the Rails::Paths::Path documentation for more information.

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Class Public methods
new(path)
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 49
def initialize(path)
  @path = path
  @root = {}
end
Instance Public methods
[](path)
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 64
def [](path)
  @root[path]
end
[]=(path, value)
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 54
def []=(path, value)
  glob = self[path] ? self[path].glob : nil
  add(path, with: value, glob: glob)
end
add(path, options = {})
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 59
def add(path, options = {})
  with = Array(options.fetch(:with, path))
  @root[path] = Path.new(self, path, with, options)
end
all_paths()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 80
def all_paths
  values.tap(&:uniq!)
end
autoload_once()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 84
def autoload_once
  filter_by(&:autoload_once?)
end
autoload_paths()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 92
def autoload_paths
  filter_by(&:autoload?)
end
eager_load()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 88
def eager_load
  filter_by(&:eager_load?)
end
keys()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 72
def keys
  @root.keys
end
load_paths()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 96
def load_paths
  filter_by(&:load_path?)
end
values()
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 68
def values
  @root.values
end
values_at(*list)
# File railties/lib/rails/paths.rb, line 76
def values_at(*list)
  @root.values_at(*list)
end