Module: Ork::Utils

Defined in:
lib/ork/utils.rb

Overview

Instead of monkey patching Kernel or trying to be clever, it’s best to confine all the helper methods in a Utils module.

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.const(context, name) ⇒ Object

Used by: ‘attribute`, `reference`, `collection`.

Employed as a solution to avoid ‘NameError` problems when trying to load models referring to other models not yet loaded.

Example:

class Comment
  include Ork::Document

  reference :user, User # NameError undefined constant User.
end

Instead of relying on some clever `const_missing` hack, we can
simply use a Symbol.

class Comment
  include Ork::Document

  reference :user, :User
end



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# File 'lib/ork/utils.rb', line 28

def self.const(context, name)
  case name
  when Symbol then context.const_get(name)
  when String then context.const_get(name.to_sym)
  else name
  end
end