Configuring Rails Applications
==============================

This guide covers the configuration and initialization features available to Rails applications. By referring to this guide, you will be able to:

* Adjust the behavior of your Rails applications
* Add additional code to be run at application start time

== Locations for Initialization Code

preinitializers
environment.rb first
env-specific files
initializers (load_application_initializers)
after-initializer

== Using a Preinitializer

== Configuring Rails Components

=== Configuring Active Record

=== Configuring Action Controller

=== Configuring Action View

=== Configuring Action Mailer

=== Configuring Active Resource

=== Configuring Active Support

== Using Initializers
 organization, controlling load order

== Using an After-Initializer

== Changelog ==

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16213-rails-guides/tickets/28[Lighthouse ticket]

* November 5, 2008: Rough outline by link:../authors.html#mgunderloy[Mike Gunderloy]


actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/base.rb
257:    cattr_accessor :logger
267:    cattr_accessor :smtp_settings
273:    cattr_accessor :sendmail_settings
276:    cattr_accessor :raise_delivery_errors
282:    cattr_accessor :perform_deliveries
285:    cattr_accessor :deliveries
288:    cattr_accessor :default_charset
291:    cattr_accessor :default_content_type
294:    cattr_accessor :default_mime_version
297:    cattr_accessor :default_implicit_parts_order
299:    cattr_reader :protected_instance_variables

actionmailer/Rakefile
36:  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source' << '-A cattr_accessor=object'

actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb
263:    cattr_reader :protected_instance_variables
273:    cattr_accessor :asset_host
279:    cattr_accessor :consider_all_requests_local
285:    cattr_accessor :allow_concurrency
317:    cattr_accessor :param_parsers
321:    cattr_accessor :default_charset
325:    cattr_accessor :logger
329:    cattr_accessor :resource_action_separator
333:    cattr_accessor :resources_path_names
337:    cattr_accessor :request_forgery_protection_token
341:    cattr_accessor :optimise_named_routes
351:    cattr_accessor :use_accept_header
361:    cattr_accessor :relative_url_root

actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb
55:          cattr_accessor :page_cache_directory
58:          cattr_accessor :page_cache_extension

actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb
37:        cattr_reader :cache_store
48:        cattr_accessor :perform_caching

actionpack/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb
98:    cattr_accessor :error_file_path

actionpack/lib/action_controller/mime_type.rb
24:    cattr_reader :html_types, :unverifiable_types

actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb
36:      base.cattr_accessor :rescue_responses
40:      base.cattr_accessor :rescue_templates

actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/active_record_store.rb
60:        cattr_accessor :data_column_name
170:        cattr_accessor :connection
173:        cattr_accessor :table_name
177:        cattr_accessor :session_id_column
181:        cattr_accessor :data_column
282:      cattr_accessor :session_class

actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb
44:    cattr_accessor :included_tags, :instance_writer => false

actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
189:    cattr_accessor :debug_rjs
193:    cattr_accessor :warn_cache_misses

actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/active_record_helper.rb
7:    cattr_accessor :field_error_proc

actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
805:    cattr_accessor :default_form_builder

actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/erb.rb
47:      cattr_accessor :erb_trim_mode

actionpack/test/active_record_unit.rb
5:  cattr_accessor :able_to_connect
6:  cattr_accessor :connected

actionpack/test/controller/filters_test.rb
286:    cattr_accessor :execution_log

actionpack/test/template/form_options_helper_test.rb
3:TZInfo::Timezone.cattr_reader :loaded_zones

activemodel/lib/active_model/errors.rb
28:    cattr_accessor :default_error_messages

activemodel/Rakefile
19:  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source' << '-A cattr_accessor=object'

activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb
9:      base.cattr_accessor :attribute_types_cached_by_default, :instance_writer => false
11:      base.cattr_accessor :time_zone_aware_attributes, :instance_writer => false

activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
394:    cattr_accessor :logger, :instance_writer => false
443:    cattr_accessor :configurations, :instance_writer => false
450:    cattr_accessor :primary_key_prefix_type, :instance_writer => false
456:    cattr_accessor :table_name_prefix, :instance_writer => false
461:    cattr_accessor :table_name_suffix, :instance_writer => false
467:    cattr_accessor :pluralize_table_names, :instance_writer => false
473:    cattr_accessor :colorize_logging, :instance_writer => false
478:    cattr_accessor :default_timezone, :instance_writer => false
487:    cattr_accessor :schema_format , :instance_writer => false
491:    cattr_accessor :timestamped_migrations , :instance_writer => false

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb
11:    cattr_accessor :connection_handler, :instance_writer => false

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
166:      cattr_accessor :emulate_booleans

activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
498:  cattr_accessor :all_loaded_fixtures

activerecord/lib/active_record/locking/optimistic.rb
38:        base.cattr_accessor :lock_optimistically, :instance_writer => false

activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb
259:    cattr_accessor :verbose

activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb
13:    cattr_accessor :ignore_tables 

activerecord/lib/active_record/serializers/json_serializer.rb
4:      base.cattr_accessor :include_root_in_json, :instance_writer => false

activerecord/Rakefile
142:  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source' << '-A cattr_accessor=object'

activerecord/test/cases/lifecycle_test.rb
61:  cattr_reader :last_inherited

activerecord/test/cases/mixin_test.rb
9:  cattr_accessor :forced_now_time

activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb
206:    cattr_accessor :logger

activeresource/Rakefile
43:  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source' << '-A cattr_accessor=object'

activesupport/lib/active_support/buffered_logger.rb
17:    cattr_accessor :silencer

activesupport/lib/active_support/cache.rb
81:      cattr_accessor :logger

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/attribute_accessors.rb
5:#    cattr_accessor :hair_colors
10:  def cattr_reader(*syms)
29:  def cattr_writer(*syms)
50:  def cattr_accessor(*syms)
51:    cattr_reader(*syms)
52:    cattr_writer(*syms)

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/logger.rb
34:  cattr_accessor :silencer

activesupport/test/core_ext/class/attribute_accessor_test.rb
6:      cattr_accessor :foo
7:      cattr_accessor :bar, :instance_writer => false

activesupport/test/core_ext/module/synchronization_test.rb
6:    @target.cattr_accessor :mutex, :instance_writer => false

railties/doc/guides/html/creating_plugins.html
786:      cattr_accessor <span style="color: #990000">:</span>yaffle_text_field<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>yaffle_date_field
860:      cattr_accessor <span style="color: #990000">:</span>yaffle_text_field<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>yaffle_date_field

railties/lib/rails_generator/base.rb
93:      cattr_accessor :logger

railties/Rakefile
265:  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source' << '--accessor' << 'cattr_accessor=object'

railties/test/rails_info_controller_test.rb
12:    cattr_accessor :local_request

Rakefile
32:  rdoc.options << '-A cattr_accessor=object'