Rails core - May 2011 - warning: toplevel constant SomeController referenced by Admin::SomeController

This issue has been discussed before (http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/
125392) and after spending a while debugging through this, I still
don''t have a solution. Lets try again?

I have two controllers, SomeController and Admin::SomeController. When
SomeController is loaded first (which happens under spork, found out
by editing ActiveSupport::AbstractController) I get warning: toplevel
constant SomeController referenced by Admin::SomeController and the
second controller is not loaded. The first controller is polluting
something for the namespaced controller.

I have a rather large project where this happens, so I can''t post it.
But I have a 100% repro, so I''d be happy to do some debugging.

Help?

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On 25 May 2011, at 18:26, dblock wrote:
> I have two controllers, SomeController and Admin::SomeController. When
> SomeController is loaded first (which happens under spork, found out
> by editing ActiveSupport::AbstractController) I get warning: toplevel
> constant SomeController referenced by Admin::SomeController and the
> second controller is not loaded. The first controller is polluting
> something for the namespaced controller.
Is Admin a class or a module? If it''s a class it''s due to the
fact that const_missing searches for constants in ancestors which includes
Object when Admin is a class. Since SomeController is defined already in Object
it will return that constant along with the warning message. If Admin is a
module then the ancestor list is just itself.

A couple of ways to workaround the problem, either make Admin a module if
possible or nest the public-facing controllers under a different namespace, e.g.
Admin::SomeController and Front::SomeController.


Andrew

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