Rails - Aug 2011 - autoloading LoadError: Expected known_ip.rb to define KnownIp

Hello, i have a problem with autoloading model classes.
I have had similar problems before when a file''s name in
Rails'' opinion
did not match with the name of the class defined inside, but eventually
everything worked, so i didn''t look into details.
This time the problem comes from running Unit Tests and does not want to
go away.

I have a model class KnownIP defined in a file named "known_ip.rb"
(rather than "known_i_p.rb").
This file name was generated by the model generator, in i prefer it this
way.
In any case, the application works.

The database table is called "known_ips".

To my test_helper.rb i added

  set_fixture_class :known_ips => KnownIP,

(otherwise it would guess "KnownIp").

Now, when it try to run Unit Tests, i get an error:

LoadError: Expected .../known_ip.rb to define KnownIp.
gems/activesupport-3.1.0.rc6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:486:in
`load_missing_constant''

I looked into the source and experimented a bit.
I would be ready to say that autoloading loads everything in the models
directory, and KnownIP class gets defined just fine, but then Rails gets
surprised that it has loaded a file named "known_ip.rb" but has no
class
named "KnownIp" (even though such class was never mentioned anywhere).

However, if i rename known_ip.rb to foo.rb, Rails does not complain that
"Expected .../foo.rb to define Foo", and everything works.
But i am picky and do not want a class named "KnownIP" to be defined
in
a filed named "foo.rb".

Can anybody please explain this or tell how to just load a file,
without complains from Rails about what has not been defined inside?

Thanks.

Alexey.

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I''ve found a recent similar question on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7081782/inconsistent-loaderror-behavior-with-lib-namespacing-autoloading/7093083

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I should probably add that adding explicit "require" or
"load" did not
help.

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If I''m not mistaking, Rails in any case when found file name(.rb) named
(passing .tableize method) as a table name, it accepts that file as a model file
and seeking the class according to a convention(!) passing .classify.constantize
chunk of methods. In your case you have to play with:
1) rename table name "known_ips" to "known_ip_addresses" you
are picky :)
2) set_table_name "known_ip_addresses" to a KnownIP class.
3) file name "known_ip" you can leave as is.

On 17.08.2011, at 16:01, Alexey Muranov wrote:
> Hello, i have a problem with autoloading model classes.
> I have had similar problems before when a file''s name in
Rails'' opinion
> did not match with the name of the class defined inside, but eventually
> everything worked, so i didn''t look into details.
> This time the problem comes from running Unit Tests and does not want to
> go away.
> 
> 
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Valery Kvon wrote in post #1017132:
> If I''m not mistaking, Rails in any case when found file name(.rb)
named
> (passing .tableize method) as a table name, it accepts that file as a
> model file and seeking the class according to a convention(!) passing
> .classify.constantize chunk of methods. In your case you have to play
> with:
> 1) rename table name "known_ips" to
"known_ip_addresses" you are picky
> :)
> 2) set_table_name "known_ip_addresses" to a KnownIP class.
> 3) file name "known_ip" you can leave as is.
Thanks for the answer.

2) yes, i have set the table name in my class with  set_table_name.

1,3) i do not want to rename the table or the class, or the file yet, as
the application works fine.
I just want to find out how to override Rails autoloading in this case
(for Unit Tests).

I have tried putting "autoload" in my test_helper.rb, but it
didn''t work
because (i cheated in my question) my KnownIP is in Admin module, so it
is Admin::KnownIP, and autoload does not want to accept

  autoload ''Admin::KnownIP'', path

with an error: "autoload must be constant name: Admin::KnownIP
(NameError)"

I have not tested yet if autoload in this case would work without
Admin::.

Alexey.

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I have advanced a bit: the error does not show up if i comment out

  fixtures :all

in test_helper.rb and do not run known_ip_test.rb.
I need to find out now how to load the known_ips.yml fixture and
known_ip.rb class definition without complains from rails...

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I am sorry, i have cheated.
I tried with a new application, and in the described above case there 
were no errors,  i only had to add

    set_fixture_class :known_ips => KnownIP

AFTER `fixtures :all` in `test_helper.rb`

In my application, however, the class actually is `Admin::KnownIP`, and 
adding

    set_fixture_class ''admin/known_ips'' => Admin::KnownIP

does not help for some reason...
I''ll keep trying.

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I couldn''t make it work with Admin:: namespace and submitted a bug 
report:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/2572

Please comment.

Alexey.

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