[Ruby] Weird Rails Class Inheritance Bug

[Ryan Davis]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote:

> http://pastie.caboo.se/4990

In the following:

       # Ignore directories and files that end with a digit
       # Capture the name of the fixture file
       if FileTest.file?(path) && /\D\.yml$/.match(path) && %r%/([^./] 
+)\.yml$%.match(path)
         @@fixture_files << $1
       end

I wonder about the last 2 conditions. Why two conditions and why  
ignore files that end in a digit? I assume the second is really just  
for the capture, but that will break on legacy DBs that have '.' in  
their table name (the last oracle db I worked on used them all over  
for namespacing, and yes it was a rails app I was writing). How about:

       # Ignore directories and files that end with a digit
       if FileTest.file?(path) && /\D\.yml$/ =~ path then
         @@fixture_files << File.basename(path, '.yml')
       end

or something similar?

Also, as an aside, //.match(s) or s.match(//) are both a fair bit  
slower than // =~ s or s =~ //. Doesn't matter in your current  
example, but in a tight loop it'll add up quickly.