Packwerk/Stimpack: No Dependency/Privacy Checks for View/URL Helpers Across Pack Boundaries?

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i was just hoping that someone could confirm that i am seeing: packwerk/stimpack does not perform any dependency/privacy checks on the use of view or url helper method across pack boundaries.

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That sounds right. packwerk relies on being able to statically look at constant (i.e. CONSTANT, Class, or Module) references.

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The one exception is that it knows how to turn a rails association (e.g. has_one :user) into a reference (i.e. it knows that is a reference to User).

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It doesn’t know about references via method calls or any other form of meta-programming or a convention that might establish a runtime dependency/reference to another pack.

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thanks @AlexEvanczuk