On 7 Nov 2008, at 11:58, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:

>
> On 6 nov, 17:14, "Michael Koziarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm willing to help on this, but I need to think what the core
>>> developers think about this.
>>
>> I believe the support for a single symlinked directory is probably
>> because of the way most capistrano deployments work, but you'd have  
>> to
>> dig through the blame output to know for sure.  Did that show  
>> anything
>> of interest?
>
> "you'd have to dig through the blame output to know for sure". Sorry,
> I know all the words individual meaning, but I couldn't understand
> very well this phrase. English is not my native language. What did you
> mean by digging through the blame output?

the output of git blame (tells you when the lines in a file were last  
changed, so you can see who last changed, when and in what commit (and  
then hopefully the commit messages tells you why)

Fred
>
>
>> Feel free to add a comment-patch, then we can look at changing the
>> implementation after 2.2 final ships.
>
> I'm discussing this with Joshua Peek on
> http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/1296-simplify-glob-in-pathsrb-actionpack-to-get-a-cleaner-code#ticket-1296-6
>
> I'm waiting for some orientation of how should I submit this patch...
> If I should deprecate this support or not. How should I deprecate in
> this case. I need to know if I could comment the code for better
> understanding and if I could add a note to Rails documentation about
> symlinked dir lack of support or one level support.
>
> My main concern is about making the code clearer. I've spent a lot of
> time finding out why that line of code was written that way, when
> trying to understand the Rails behaviour for rendering a template...
> If at least there was a note in the Ruby documentation for the glob
> method stating its symlinked dir limitation, it would be easier to
> understand.
>
> Actually, I'm willing to send another patch to Rails guide to explain
> how subtemplates can be achieved with Rails. It is not documented in
> Rails documentation at all and I found it hard to get some references
> at the time, mostly because of a lack of documentation of the render
> behaviour. So, I intend to explain this on Rails guides or in the core
> documentation. I still don't know which place would be the more
> appropriate. While trying to understand why I could do subtemplating
> the way I was doing I needed to search the Rails code, since that
> method was not well documented. Then I found that line of code that I
> couldn't understand why it was so complicated... Even the extra
> unnecessary '*' adds further complication...
>
> >


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