Rails - Sep 2009 - What's the Right Rails Prologue for a Standalone Program

I am trying to write a small program to exercise certain of my Rails
classes without having to go through a browser.

I have a file that like this:
########### filer_convert.rb #################
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../../config/boot''
require ''filer''

Filer.convert(10)

#########################################

I want to use it to debug the Filer.convert method inside an IDE
(Komodo).  filer.rb could be simply this:

############ filer.rb #######################
class Filer < ActiveRecord::Base
end
#########################################

I was hoping that the prelude to this file, the first two require
statements would be enough to allow me to
test rails classes.  When I debug this, though, I get the error
something like "undefined constant Active Record".  I suspect there is
more that I need in the prelude to filer_convert.rb to get the whole
panopoly of rails functionality, but can''t figure out what it is.

What should be ''required'' at the beginning of filer_convert.rb
to
bring in all of rails?

Thank.

On Sep 20, 3:55 pm, ddoherty03
<ddohert...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I am trying to write a small program to exercise certain of my Rails
> classes without having to go through a browser.
>
> I have a file that like this:
> ########### filer_convert.rb #################
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../../config/boot''
> require ''filer''
>
> Filer.convert(10)
>
> #########################################
>
> I want to use it to debug the Filer.convert method inside an IDE
> (Komodo).  filer.rb could be simply this:
>
> ############ filer.rb #######################
> class Filer < ActiveRecord::Base
> end
> #########################################
>
> I was hoping that the prelude to this file, the first two require
> statements would be enough to allow me to
> test rails classes.  When I debug this, though, I get the error
> something like "undefined constant Active Record".  I suspect
there is
> more that I need in the prelude to filer_convert.rb to get the whole
> panopoly of rails functionality, but can''t figure out what it is.
>
> What should be ''required'' at the beginning of
filer_convert.rb to
> bring in all of rails?
>
> Thank.
You need to include environment.rb, not boot.rb (boot.rb will load
Rails itself, but not much actually happens without a defined Rails
environmen).

Thanks, pharrinton.  That did it.  I still get a strange internal
error message when I run it under komodo, but I assume that''s
a komodo issue.

On Sep 20, 10:33 pm, pharrington
<xenogene...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Sep 20, 3:55 pm, ddoherty03
<ddohert...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am trying to write a small program to exercise certain of my Rails
> > classes without having to go through a browser.
>
> > I have a file that like this:
> > ########### filer_convert.rb #################
> > require File.dirname(__FILE__) +
''/../../config/boot''
> > require ''filer''
>
> > Filer.convert(10)
>
> > #########################################
>
> > I want to use it to debug the Filer.convert method inside an IDE
> > (Komodo).  filer.rb could be simply this:
>
> > ############ filer.rb #######################
> > class Filer < ActiveRecord::Base
> > end
> > #########################################
>
> > I was hoping that the prelude to this file, the first two require
> > statements would be enough to allow me to
> > test rails classes.  When I debug this, though, I get the error
> > something like "undefined constant Active Record".  I
suspect there is
> > more that I need in the prelude to filer_convert.rb to get the whole
> > panopoly of rails functionality, but can''t figure out what it
is.
>
> > What should be ''required'' at the beginning of
filer_convert.rb to
> > bring in all of rails?
>
> > Thank.
>
> You need to include environment.rb, not boot.rb (boot.rb will load
> Rails itself, but not much actually happens without a defined Rails
> environmen).