What does require_self mean?

Question

In rails3.1 application.css we could see

/*
 *= require_self
 *= require_tree .
*/

I know that require_tree . is just telling the system to bundle together everything from the stylesheets folder into a single file.

But what does require_self tells?

score 65 · Accepted Answer · edited May 09 '13 at 12:38

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From http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html:

/* ...
*= require_self
*= require_tree .
*/

"In this example require_self is used. This will put the CSS contained within the file (if any) at the top of any other CSS in this file unless require_self is specified after another require directive."

edited May 09 '13 at 12:38

eronisko

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answered Jun 20 '11 at 15:23

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and with one, tiny, should-have-been-obvious change, all my styles start working. Gratze – levous Oct 09 '12 at 15:09

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '13 at 14:00

Shedd's answer used to be correct but now the meaning has changed ever so slightly;

Again, from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html (bolding my own):

In this example require_self is used. This puts the CSS contained within the file (if any) at the precise location of the require_self call. If require_self is called more than once, only the last call is respected.

So you can have require_self at any point, and any CSS you have in the file will be injected into the point you wrote require_self

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 16 '17 at 18:22

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//= require_self

It loads the file itself, to define the order that the files are loaded.

edited Aug 16 '17 at 18:22

Kick Buttowski

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answered Jul 19 '11 at 23:27

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What does require_self mean?

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