Active Support Descendants Tracker

This module provides an internal implementation to track descendants which is faster than iterating through ObjectSpace.

However Ruby 3.1 provide a fast native +Class#subclasses+ method, so if you know your code won’t be executed on older rubies, including ActiveSupport::DescendantsTracker does not provide any benefit.

Class Public methods

descendants(klass)

📝 Source code

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/descendants_tracker.rb, line 102
      def descendants(klass)
        klass.descendants
      end

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subclasses(klass)

📝 Source code

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/descendants_tracker.rb, line 98
      def subclasses(klass)
        klass.subclasses
      end

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Instance Public methods

descendants()

📝 Source code

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/descendants_tracker.rb, line 107
    def descendants
      subclasses = DescendantsTracker.reject!(self.subclasses)
      subclasses.concat(subclasses.flat_map(&:descendants))
    end

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