I am developing my first rails app and I am quite shocked at the amount of warnings the rails source spits out.
Please guys, try running the rails source with '-w' as a RUBYOPT and addressing the warnings. Rails spits out tons of warnings and this is definitively a pain for doing proper ruby development.
Please guys, try running the rails source with '-w' as a RUBYOPT and addressing the warnings. Rails spits out tons of warnings and this is definitively a pain for doing proper ruby development.
Patches go to http://dev.rubyonrails.org. Knock yourself out!
I know Eric Hodel put in patches for this atleast twice and they were ignored. Would a patch making Rails -w safe be welcomed at this point?
Sure, any patches which apply cleanly and don't have any side effects will be greatfully received.
the best way to ensure they'll apply cleanly is not to provide one massive patch for the entirety of rails.
Does anyone know of the best way to remove the warnings like this? For the method redef, is it just do an undef right before the new method is created?
...vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/assertions/../vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb:299: warning: method redefined; discarding old
....vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb:133: warning: instance variable @primary_key_name not initialized
- Rob
Sure; they’ve always been welcome. Eric’s ticket 1792 was addressed in r3124-3135 and r3169.
“-w safety” is a bikeshedder’s dream, unfortunately. There are some warnings, such as for uninitialized instance variables, that I won’t bend over backward to fix just for the warning’s sake. Nor will I cry over red herrings like double requires due to Ruby not resolving full paths (require “foo/…/bar” and require “bar” loads bar.rb twice.)
Ultimately I’m happy to apply patches, though more to quiet the FUD than the warnings.
jeremy
Yes. Do an undef before it. Most of the warnings do not come from rails itself but from some of its libraries (active record, action pack, etc).
Here's the full page of warnings I get on starting a server, for example, with latest rails 1.1.6: ./script/../config/boot.rb:28:Warning: require_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ validations.rb:334: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ validations.rb:363: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ migration.rb:224: warning: instance variable @ignore_new_methods not initialized /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ migration.rb:224: warning: instance variable @ignore_new_methods not initialized /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:41: warning: method redefined; discarding old allow_concurrency= /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:456: warning: method redefined; discarding old remove_column /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:119: warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/ request.rb:171: warning: method redefined; discarding old relative_url_root /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:17: warning: method redefined; discarding old = /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/ cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb:57: warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/ cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb:8: warning: method redefined; discarding old initialize_query /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/ session/active_record_store.rb:129: warning: private attribute? /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/ session/active_record_store.rb:179: warning: method redefined; discarding old connection /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/helpers/ prototype_helper.rb:641: warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_view/helpers/ prototype_helper.rb:874: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/ vendor/tmail/facade.rb:486: warning: method redefined; discarding old create_reply /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.6/lib/ action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb:6: warning: discarding old message /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:581: warning: method redefined; discarding old = /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:590: warning: method redefined; discarding old /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:595: warning: method redefined; discarding old keys /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:600: warning: method redefined; discarding old find_pair /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:607: warning: method redefined; discarding old = /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:611: warning: method redefined; discarding old /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:615: warning: method redefined; discarding old method_missing => Booting WEBrick... /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/initializer.rb:483: warning: instance variable @after_initialize_block not initialized /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/webrick_server.rb:12: warning: method redefined; discarding old stdinput /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/webrick_server.rb:16: warning: method redefined; discarding old env_table /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/webrick_server.rb:20: warning: method redefined; discarding old initialize
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