Rails - Jan 2008 - "Expected #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/class_methods.rb to define ClassMethods error

Hi,

I struggled with this error:
"Expected #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/
class_methods.rb to define ClassMethods

 for a while after upgrading from rails 1.2.3 to 2.0.2, and although I
seem to have fixed it, I don''t totally understand *why* it was broken
in the first place.

The error occured anytime I accessed a class that had a call to
acts_as_ferret, either in the console or through the server.  I was
able to fix the problem temporarily in the console by doing a "load"
of that file (a "require" didn''t work, as expected).

I seem to have fixed the problem permanently by renaming two files in
the acts_as_solr (I was playing with both solr and ferret) path,
class_methods.rb and instance_methods.rb.  So as far as I can tell,
the "require class_methods" in acts_as_ferret (and after fixing that,
the "require instance_methods") was getting confused as to what file
was actually being required.

I have no real insight into why this started happening when I
upgraded, or why my fix was in fact a fix.  Clearly something with the
way files are loaded was in play, but I''d be interested to know which
component of my system was to blame (me, acts_as_ferret, acts_as_solr,
rails, other?).  Any thoughts are appreciated.

Brad
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Not sure and I''m still on rails 1.2.5, but I might have a lead on
tracking this down.

I''ve run into similar problems a few times in the last week after
deploying to my productions servers where I found the ferret index
files weren''t where they should be and then I noticed in my main
directory for the application there was an empty file called
''index''.
Each time when I deleted this and the restarted my app, everything
worked fine.

Not sure why this situation arises, but that''s how I cleaned  it up
each time.

On Jan 26, 10:26 am, Brad Bennett
<bradleyjaybenn...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I struggled with this error:
> "Expected #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/
> class_methods.rb to define ClassMethods
>
>  for a while after upgrading from rails 1.2.3 to 2.0.2, and although I
> seem to have fixed it, I don''t totally understand *why* it was
broken
> in the first place.
>
> The error occured anytime I accessed a class that had a call to
> acts_as_ferret, either in the console or through the server.  I was
> able to fix the problem temporarily in the console by doing a
"load"
> of that file (a "require" didn''t work, as expected).
>
> I seem to have fixed the problem permanently by renaming two files in
> the acts_as_solr (I was playing with both solr and ferret) path,
> class_methods.rb and instance_methods.rb.  So as far as I can tell,
> the "require class_methods" in acts_as_ferret (and after fixing
that,
> the "require instance_methods") was getting confused as to what
file
> was actually being required.
>
> I have no real insight into why this started happening when I
> upgraded, or why my fix was in fact a fix.  Clearly something with the
> way files are loaded was in play, but I''d be interested to know
which
> component of my system was to blame (me, acts_as_ferret, acts_as_solr,
> rails, other?).  Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Brad
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