Updated Reserved Words?

[Walter Lee Davis]

In another thread, status was apparently outed as a reserved word, but I can't find that documented anywhere. The latest list that Google could find was from July 2011, and it didn't include that word.

The "old" wiki comes up in searches, but doesn't appear to be maintained any more. I've looked through the Rails Guides, and this doesn't appear to be a topic there. Can anyone point to a canonical resource listing all of the words guaranteed to make Rails angry?

Thanks in advance,

Walter

[Don]

+1... (so frustrating that this is not provided as part of the core Rails docs - I've wasted more time debugging crap caused by reserved word clashes than any other single thing in Rails.)

Don

[Colin Law]

I suggest that one of you pick up all the old data they can find and
start a new list somewhere. Preferably on a wiki so others can add to
it as they get problems. Then you will be able to rest on your
laurels for the rest of your life knowing that you have done a great
service to the community.

The problem with making it part of the core docs is that many of the
words (I guess) are from gems rather than core code.

Colin

[Philip Hallstrom]

You might try loading up rails console and...

Module.constants
ActiveRecord::constants
ActiveRecord::Base::constants

And so on for the other top level module/classes....

-philip

[Colin Law]

That would only catch a small subset would it not? There are also
methods to worry about.

I wonder whether one could write a script to extract them all. That
sounds like a nice little project for someone.

Colin

[Peter Vandenabeele]

Just for starters. My vim editor highlights many "special" words within a

few ms after typing them, which acts as immediate feedback. I presume

other editors have that too.

* there must be a list of "special words" maintained somewhere in

  that project (Google for "ruby vim extension" ?)

* Using that is actually very handy and would be a first level of

  defense if one is worried about accidentally using a special word.

  I find that very helpful.

Peter

[Walter Lee Davis]

That's a great idea. Here's a start. I may move this somewhere more relevant if I get a moment.

https://github.com/walterdavis/railsready/wiki

Walter

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[Colin Law]

On 8 February 2012 16:36, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 2 February 2012 15:38, Don <don.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> +1... (so frustrating that this is not provided as part of the core Rails
>>> docs - I've wasted more time debugging crap caused by reserved word clashes
>>> than any other single thing in Rails.)
>>
>> I suggest that one of you pick up all the old data they can find and
>> start a new list somewhere.  Preferably on a wiki so others can add to
>> it as they get problems.  Then you will be able to rest on your
>> laurels for the rest of your life knowing that you have done a great
>> service to the community.
>>
>> The problem with making it part of the core docs is that many of the
>> words (I guess) are from gems rather than core code.
>
> That's a great idea. Here's a start. I may move this somewhere more relevant if I get a moment.
>
> https://github.com/walterdavis/railsready/wiki

It might be worth including a header explaining what the list is :)

Colin