Rails - Apr 2005 - Model names in controllers

Please excuse yet another newbie question...

I''m getting this error:

MissingSourceFile in <controller not set>#<action not set>

c:/program
files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.8.1/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb:75:in
`require_dependencies'': Missing model MyModel.rb

 From these lines of code:

class MyModelController < ApplicationController
  model :MyModel
end

The model''s file name is my_model.rb. If I rename the file to
MyModel.rb
it works, or if I change the line of code to model :my_model it works. I 
used the generator for the model so it seems that the file name should 
follow rails conventions. But it seems that the model method of 
ApplicationController is looking for a file name, rather than a class 
name. Am I missing something here or do I have to pass the file name to 
model?

Thanks!

Jack Christensen

model :my_model

Is the correct usage. All the methods work this way. You aren''t really 
specifying the file name, but I think a literal that can be used to 
determine the class name in a given context. For example:

class MyModelBox < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :my_models
end

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :my_model_box
end


Jack Christensen wrote:
> Please excuse yet another newbie question...
>
> I''m getting this error:
>
> MissingSourceFile in <controller not set>#<action not set>
>
> c:/program 
>
files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.8.1/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb:75:in
> `require_dependencies'': Missing model MyModel.rb
>
> From these lines of code:
>
> class MyModelController < ApplicationController
>  model :MyModel
> end
>
> The model''s file name is my_model.rb. If I rename the file to 
> MyModel.rb it works, or if I change the line of code to model 
> :my_model it works. I used the generator for the model so it seems 
> that the file name should follow rails conventions. But it seems that 
> the model method of ApplicationController is looking for a file name, 
> rather than a class name. Am I missing something here or do I have to 
> pass the file name to model?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jack Christensen
>
>
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Jeremy Huffman wrote:
> model :my_model
>
> Is the correct usage. All the methods work this way. You aren''t
really
> specifying the file name, but I think a literal that can be used to 
> determine the class name in a given context. For example:
>
> class MyModelBox < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_many :my_models
> end
>
> class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
>    belongs_to :my_model_box
> end
>
That makes sense. One point that confused me is scaffold works 
differently. Both scaffold :MyModel and scaffold :my_model work. It 
would be easier if all the methods worked that way.

Jack Christensen