Troubles with using gems in Rails

Rails
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Hi!

I’m observing some problems using gem inside Rails. My understanding is
that after following sequence in irb:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require ‘active_record’
=> true
irb(main):003:0> gem ‘acts_as_taggable’
=> true

I should have access to acts_as_tagable mixins, like:

irb(main):005:0> ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable
NameError: uninitialized constant ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:263:in
load_missing_constant' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in const_missing’
from (irb):5

Well it looks like I don’t have access. I have to include file from gem
manually:

irb(main):013:0> require
‘/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/acts_as_taggable-2.0.2/lib/taggable.rb’
=> []
irb(main):014:0> ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable
=> ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable

What I’m doing wrong? My environment:

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-freebsd6]
$ gem list rubygems-update
rubygems-update (0.9.2)

Best regards,

–
Witold R.
nhw.pl (EN blog)
NetManiac (PL blog)

2

Witold,

That is an enhancement of the latest rubygems. The ‘gem’ method does
not trigger auto-require as ‘require_gem’ used to. The
‘acts_as_taggable’ gem has autorequire set to ‘taggable’, which
activates all that stuff you expect. But since it is not called when
you use ‘gem’, you need to require ‘taggable’ explicitly after that.
Notice, that there is no need to specify the full path in require.

Hope it helps,
Val

$ irb -rrubygems

gem ‘acts_as_taggable’
=> true
require ‘taggable’
=> true
ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable
=> ActiveRecord::Acts::Taggable

On Apr 22, 8:31 pm, Witold R. [email protected]

3

Val wrote:

That is an enhancement of the latest rubygems. The ‘gem’ method does
not trigger auto-require as ‘require_gem’ used to. The
‘acts_as_taggable’ gem has autorequire set to ‘taggable’, which
activates all that stuff you expect. But since it is not called when
you use ‘gem’, you need to require ‘taggable’ explicitly after that.

Thank You for clarifications.

Is there some way to enable old behavior? Well, I see this as something
lowering code readability. Thanks to disabled auto require feature I
need to execute two commands, and require often would need different
name for include (like in this example: acts_as_taggable and taggable)

–
Witold R.
nhw.pl (EN blog)
NetManiac (PL blog)

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Witold R. wrote:

lowering code readability. Thanks to disabled auto require feature I
need to execute two commands, and require often would need different
name for include (like in this example: acts_as_taggable and taggable)

gem “somegem” is - if I understand correctly - only needed if you need a
special version

require “somegem” will require the latest “somegem”

irb(main):001:0> require “rubygems”
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require “trollop”
=> true
irb(main):003:0> Trollop::VERSION
=> “1.6”

irb(main):001:0> require “rubygems”
=> true
irb(main):002:0> gem “trollop”, “1.4”
=> true
irb(main):003:0> require “trollop”
=> true
irb(main):004:0> Trollop::VERSION
=> “1.4”