Rails::Application (original) (raw)

An Engine with the responsibility of coordinating the whole boot process.

Initialization ↑

Rails::Application is responsible for executing all railties and engines initializers. It also executes some bootstrap initializers (check Rails::Application::Bootstrap) and finishing initializers, after all the others are executed (check Rails::Application::Finisher).

Configuration ↑

Besides providing the same configuration as Rails::Engine and Rails::Railtie, the application object has several specific configurations, for example enable_reloading, consider_all_requests_local, filter_parameters, logger, and so forth.

Check Rails::Application::Configuration to see them all.

Routes ↑

The application object is also responsible for holding the routes and reloading routes whenever the files change in development.

Middlewares ↑

The Application is also responsible for building the middleware stack.

Booting process ↑

The application is also responsible for setting up and executing the booting process. From the moment you require config/application.rb in your app, the booting process goes like this:

  1. require "config/boot.rb" to set up load paths.
  2. require railties and engines.
  3. Define Rails.application as class MyApp::Application < Rails::Application.
  4. Run config.before_configuration callbacks.
  5. Load config/environments/ENV.rb.
  6. Run config.before_initialize callbacks.
  7. Run Railtie#initializer defined by railties, engines, and application. One by one, each engine sets up its load paths and routes, and runs its config/initializers/* files.
  8. Custom Railtie#initializers added by railties, engines, and applications are executed.
  9. Build the middleware stack and run to_prepare callbacks.
  10. Run config.before_eager_load and eager_load! if eager_load is true.
  11. Run config.after_initialize callbacks.

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[RW] assets
[R] autoloaders
[W] config
[W] credentials
[R] executor
[R] reloader
[R] reloaders
[RW] sandbox
[RW] sandbox?

Class Public methods

create(initial_variable_values = {}, &block)Link

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def create(initial_variable_values = {}, &block) new(initial_variable_values, &block).run_load_hooks! end

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def find_root(from) find_root_with_flag "config.ru", from, Dir.pwd end

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def inherited(base) super Rails.app_class = base

add_lib_to_load_path!(find_root(base.called_from)) ActiveSupport.run_load_hooks(:before_configuration, base) end

new(initial_variable_values = {}, &block)Link

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def initialize(initial_variable_values = {}, &block) super() @initialized = false @reloaders = [] @routes_reloader = nil @app_env_config = nil @ordered_railties = nil @railties = nil @key_generators = {} @message_verifiers = nil @deprecators = nil @ran_load_hooks = false

@executor = Class.new(ActiveSupport::Executor) @reloader = Class.new(ActiveSupport::Reloader) @reloader.executor = @executor

@autoloaders = Rails::Autoloaders.new

@initial_variable_values = initial_variable_values @block = block end

Instance Public methods

Convenience for loading config/foo.yml for the current Rails env. Example:

config/exception_notification.yml:

production: url: http://127.0.0.1:8080 namespace: my_app_production

development: url: http://localhost:3001 namespace: my_app_development

Rails.application.configure do config.middleware.use ExceptionNotifier, config_for(:exception_notification) end

You can also store configurations in a shared section which will be merged with the environment configuration

config/example.yml

shared: foo: bar: baz: 1

development: foo: bar: qux: 2

Rails.application.config_for(:example)[:foo][:bar]

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def config_for(name, env: Rails.env) yaml = name.is_a?(Pathname) ? name : Pathname.new("#{paths["config"].existent.first}/#{name}.yml")

if yaml.exist? require "erb" all_configs = ActiveSupport::ConfigurationFile.parse(yaml).deep_symbolize_keys config, shared = all_configs[env.to_sym], all_configs[:shared]

if shared
  config = {} if config.nil? && shared.is_a?(Hash)
  if config.is_a?(Hash) && shared.is_a?(Hash)
    config = shared.deep_merge(config)
  elsif config.nil?
    config = shared
  end
end

if config.is_a?(Hash)
  config = ActiveSupport::OrderedOptions.new.update(config)
end

config

else raise "Could not load configuration. No such file - #{yaml}" end end

Sends any console called in the instance of a new application up to the console method defined in Rails::Railtie.

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def console(&blk) self.class.console(&blk) end

Returns an ActiveSupport::EncryptedConfiguration instance for the credentials file specified by config.credentials.content_path.

By default, config.credentials.content_path will point to either config/credentials/#{environment}.yml.enc for the current environment (for example, config/credentials/production.yml.enc for the production environment), or config/credentials.yml.enc if that file does not exist.

The encryption key is taken from either ENV["RAILS_MASTER_KEY"], or from the file specified by config.credentials.key_path. By default, config.credentials.key_path will point to either config/credentials/#{environment}.key for the current environment, or config/master.key if that file does not exist.

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def credentials @credentials ||= encrypted(config.credentials.content_path, key_path: config.credentials.key_path) end

A managed collection of deprecators (ActiveSupport::Deprecation::Deprecators). The collection’s configuration methods affect all deprecators in the collection. Additionally, the collection’s silence method silences all deprecators in the collection for the duration of a given block.

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def deprecators @deprecators ||= ActiveSupport::Deprecation::Deprecators.new.tap do |deprecators| deprecators[:railties] = Rails.deprecator end end

Eager loads the application code.

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def eager_load! Rails.autoloaders.each(&:eager_load) end

Returns an ActiveSupport::EncryptedConfiguration instance for an encrypted file. By default, the encryption key is taken from either ENV["RAILS_MASTER_KEY"], or from the config/master.key file.

my_config = Rails.application.encrypted("config/my_config.enc")

my_config.read

my_config.foo.bar

Encrypted files can be edited with the bin/rails encrypted:edit command. (See the output of bin/rails encrypted:edit --help for more information.)

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def encrypted(path, key_path: "config/master.key", env_key: "RAILS_MASTER_KEY") ActiveSupport::EncryptedConfiguration.new( config_path: Rails.root.join(path), key_path: Rails.root.join(key_path), env_key: env_key, raise_if_missing_key: config.require_master_key ) end

Stores some of the Rails initial environment parameters which will be used by middlewares and engines to configure themselves.

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def env_config @app_env_config ||= super.merge( "action_dispatch.parameter_filter" => filter_parameters, "action_dispatch.redirect_filter" => config.filter_redirect, "action_dispatch.secret_key_base" => secret_key_base, "action_dispatch.show_exceptions" => config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions, "action_dispatch.show_detailed_exceptions" => config.consider_all_requests_local, "action_dispatch.log_rescued_responses" => config.action_dispatch.log_rescued_responses, "action_dispatch.debug_exception_log_level" => ActiveSupport::Logger.const_get(config.action_dispatch.debug_exception_log_level.to_s.upcase), "action_dispatch.logger" => Rails.logger, "action_dispatch.backtrace_cleaner" => Rails.backtrace_cleaner, "action_dispatch.key_generator" => key_generator, "action_dispatch.http_auth_salt" => config.action_dispatch.http_auth_salt, "action_dispatch.signed_cookie_salt" => config.action_dispatch.signed_cookie_salt, "action_dispatch.encrypted_cookie_salt" => config.action_dispatch.encrypted_cookie_salt, "action_dispatch.encrypted_signed_cookie_salt" => config.action_dispatch.encrypted_signed_cookie_salt, "action_dispatch.authenticated_encrypted_cookie_salt" => config.action_dispatch.authenticated_encrypted_cookie_salt, "action_dispatch.use_authenticated_cookie_encryption" => config.action_dispatch.use_authenticated_cookie_encryption, "action_dispatch.encrypted_cookie_cipher" => config.action_dispatch.encrypted_cookie_cipher, "action_dispatch.signed_cookie_digest" => config.action_dispatch.signed_cookie_digest, "action_dispatch.cookies_serializer" => config.action_dispatch.cookies_serializer, "action_dispatch.cookies_digest" => config.action_dispatch.cookies_digest, "action_dispatch.cookies_rotations" => config.action_dispatch.cookies_rotations, "action_dispatch.cookies_same_site_protection" => coerce_same_site_protection(config.action_dispatch.cookies_same_site_protection), "action_dispatch.use_cookies_with_metadata" => config.action_dispatch.use_cookies_with_metadata, "action_dispatch.content_security_policy" => config.content_security_policy, "action_dispatch.content_security_policy_report_only" => config.content_security_policy_report_only, "action_dispatch.content_security_policy_nonce_generator" => config.content_security_policy_nonce_generator, "action_dispatch.content_security_policy_nonce_directives" => config.content_security_policy_nonce_directives, "action_dispatch.permissions_policy" => config.permissions_policy, ) end

Sends any generators called in the instance of a new application up to the generators method defined in Rails::Railtie.

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def generators(&blk) self.class.generators(&blk) end

Returns true if the application is initialized.

initializer(name, opts = {}, &block)Link

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def initializer(name, opts = {}, &block) self.class.initializer(name, opts, &block) end

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def isolate_namespace(mod) self.class.isolate_namespace(mod) end

key_generator(secret_key_base = self.secret_key_base)Link

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def key_generator(secret_key_base = self.secret_key_base)

@key_generators[secret_key_base] ||= ActiveSupport::CachingKeyGenerator.new( ActiveSupport::KeyGenerator.new(secret_key_base, iterations: 1000) ) end

Returns a message verifier object.

This verifier can be used to generate and verify signed messages in the application.

It is recommended not to use the same verifier for different things, so you can get different verifiers passing the verifier_name argument.

For instance, ActiveStorage::Blob.signed_id_verifier is implemented using this feature, which assures that the IDs strings haven’t been tampered with and are safe to use in a finder.

See the ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier documentation for more information.

Parameters ↑

Examples ↑

message = Rails.application.message_verifier('my_purpose').generate('data to sign against tampering') Rails.application.message_verifier('my_purpose').verify(message)

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def message_verifier(verifier_name) message_verifiers[verifier_name] end

Returns a message verifier factory (ActiveSupport::MessageVerifiers). This factory can be used as a central point to configure and create message verifiers (ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier) for your application.

By default, message verifiers created by this factory will generate messages using the default ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier options. You can override these options with a combination of ActiveSupport::MessageVerifiers#clear_rotations and ActiveSupport::MessageVerifiers#rotate. However, this must be done prior to building any message verifier instances. For example, in a before_initialize block:

config.before_initialize do |app| app.message_verifiers.clear_rotations app.message_verifiers.rotate(url_safe: true) end

Message verifiers created by this factory will always use a secret derived from secret_key_base when generating messages. clear_rotations will not affect this behavior. However, older secret_key_base values can be rotated for verifying messages:

config.before_initialize do |app| app.message_verifiers.rotate(secret_key_base: "old secret_key_base") end

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def message_verifiers @message_verifiers ||= ActiveSupport::MessageVerifiers.new do |salt, secret_key_base: self.secret_key_base| key_generator(secret_key_base).generate_key(salt) end.rotate_defaults end

Returns the dasherized application name.

MyApp::Application.new.name => "my-app"

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def name self.class.name.underscore.dasherize.delete_suffix("/application") end

If you try to define a set of Rake tasks on the instance, these will get passed up to the Rake tasks defined on the application’s class.

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def rake_tasks(&block) self.class.rake_tasks(&block) end

Reload application routes regardless if they changed or not.

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def reload_routes! if routes_reloader.execute_unless_loaded routes_reloader.loaded = false else routes_reloader.reload! end end

Sends any runner called in the instance of a new application up to the runner method defined in Rails::Railtie.

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def runner(&blk) self.class.runner(&blk) end

The secret_key_base is used as the input secret to the application’s key generator, which in turn is used to create all ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier and ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor instances, including the ones that sign and encrypt cookies.

We look for it first in ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"], then in credentials.secret_key_base. For most applications, the correct place to store it is in the encrypted credentials file.

In development and test, if the secret_key_base is still empty, it is randomly generated and stored in a temporary file in tmp/local_secret.txt.

Generating a random secret_key_base and storing it in tmp/local_secret.txt can also be triggered by setting ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE_DUMMY"]. This is useful when precompiling assets for production as part of a build step that otherwise does not need access to the production secrets.

Dockerfile example: RUN SECRET_KEY_BASE_DUMMY=1 bundle exec rails assets:precompile.

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def secret_key_base config.secret_key_base end

Sends any server called in the instance of a new application up to the server method defined in Rails::Railtie.

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def server(&blk) self.class.server(&blk) end

Instance Protected methods

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def ensure_generator_templates_added configured_paths = config.generators.templates configured_paths.unshift(*(paths["lib/templates"].existent - configured_paths)) end