method

parents

rails latest stable - Class: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Module

parents()

public

Returns all the parents of this module according to its name, ordered from nested outwards. The receiver is not contained within the result.

  module M
    module N
    end
  end
  X = M::N

  p M.parents    # => [Object]
  p M::N.parents # => [M, Object]
  p X.parents    # => [M, Object]

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/introspection.rb, line 47
      def parents
        parents = []
        if parent_name
          parts = parent_name.split('::')
          until parts.empty?
            parents << (parts * '::').constantize
            parts.pop
          end
        end
        parents << Object unless parents.include? Object
        parents
      end

parents

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