rails 1.16 plug-in seems to be installed properly and it seems simple enough... $ ls -l vendor/plugins/excel/ vendor/plugins/excel/lib/ vendor/plugins/excel/: total 16 -rw-rw-r-- 1 craig craig 2952 Sep 9 15:38 init.rb drwxrwxr-x 2 craig craig 4096 Sep 9 15:38 lib vendor/plugins/excel/lib/: total 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 craig craig 6603 Sep 9 15:38 excel.rb but when I try to use it, I get an error that the method isn''t available to my Controller... NoMethodError undefined method `addWorksheetFromActiveRecord'' for Excel::Workbook:Class (this is the from the simple example methodology). I can see that the method is indeed in the Workbook Class of the Excel module. vendor/excel/init.rb does have the requisite require ''excel'' This is the controller code... def staff_list_all_export @personnel = Personnel.current # this works for other methods in this controller e = Excel::Workbook e.addWorksheetFromActiveRecord "Staff Roster", "personnel", @personnel headers[''Content-Type''] = "application/vnd.ms-excel" render_text(e.build) end I don''t have this issue with any other plugin that I am using. Anyone with a guess? Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---