Load the file at the provided path. const_paths is a set of qualified constant names. When loading the file, Dependencies will watch for the addition of these constants. Each that is defined will be marked as autoloaded, and will be removed when Dependencies.clear is next called.

If the second parameter is left off, then Dependencies will construct a set of names that the file at path may define. See loadable_constants_for_path for more details.

Source Code

# File active_support/dependencies.rb, line 196
def load_file(path, const_paths = loadable_constants_for_path(path))
  log_call path, const_paths
  const_paths = [const_paths].compact unless const_paths.is_a? Array
  parent_paths = const_paths.collect { |const_path| /(.*)::[^:]+\Z/ =~ const_path ? $1 : :Object }

  result = nil
  newly_defined_paths = new_constants_in(*parent_paths) do
    result = load_without_new_constant_marking path
  end

  autoloaded_constants.concat newly_defined_paths unless load_once_path?(path)
  autoloaded_constants.uniq!
  log "loading #{path} defined #{newly_defined_paths * ', '}" unless newly_defined_paths.empty?
  return result
end