[Rails] Re: Why does Object.const_defined?() returns false in this case?

On May 11, 9:32 pm, ms <m...@tzi.de> wrote:

> Object.const_defined?("DemandType") => false
> Object.const_get("DemandType") => Class
>
> Why does const_defined?() returns false in this case? I have also
> tested it in rails console, but it was not successful. I could also
> work with const_get() alone and catch the NameError exception, but I
> would really like to know why const_defined?() is not working.
>
Are you in development mode ? If so classes aren't loaded until they
are needed. const_defined? is returning false because the class does
not exist in memory. const_get triggers Rails' const_missing handler
which loads the class (and so const_get can then return it)

Fred

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