Ferret talk - Jun 2006 - Using acts_as_ferret outside rails

How do I use a model that has "acts_as_ferret" defined outside rails?
I''ve tried adding this to the top of my model:

require
"#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/acts_as_ferret.rb"

and then defining RAILS_ROOT and RAILS_ENV in my app that uses the model
outside rails. That got me this exception:

../vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/acts_as_ferret.rb:465:in
`ferret_create'': undefined method `debug'' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)

Anyone know what''s the correct way to do this?

Thanks,

Pedro.

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:09 +0100, Pedro C?rte-Real
wrote:
> How do I use a model that has "acts_as_ferret" defined outside
rails?
> I''ve tried adding this to the top of my model:
> 
> require
>
"#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/acts_as_ferret.rb"
> 
> and then defining RAILS_ROOT and RAILS_ENV in my app that uses the model
> outside rails. That got me this exception:
> 
> ../vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/acts_as_ferret.rb:465:in
> `ferret_create'': undefined method `debug'' for
nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
> 
> Anyone know what''s the correct way to do this?
I found a way to do it. At the start of my script:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../config/boot''
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = ''development''
require RAILS_ROOT + ''/config/environment''

After that I can use every model as if I was inside rails. I copied most
of this from the code for script/runner.

Cheers,

Pedro.