Forum: Rails-core (closed, excessive spam) camelize

Hi,

I'm getting the following error with a plugin I'm using on rails 2.1 :

  Plugins::Restful-authentication::Lib" is not a valid constant name!


The plugin gets installed in a directory named
/vendor/plugins/restful-authentication.

I traced this error down to the camelize function. The doc mentions 
this:

   +camelize+ will also convert '/' to '::' which is useful for
converting paths to namespaces.

Does this suggest that the output of camelize are accepted constant 
names?

Should this never raise a NameError? :

   ActiveSupport::Inflector.constantize(any_string.camelize)

for example:

    ActiveSupport::Inflector.constantize("ace/foo-bar/a".camelize)


Is the opinion that only directories and file names matching /\w*/ are
accepted? And they can't start with a digit? Or should we support the
above case where a directory contains a minus sign?



Lawrence

Hi Lawrence,

I experienced the same issue, of course camelize doesn't work properly,
but just add the following two lines to the plugin init.rb I can run 
Rails:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/authorization'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/authorization/stateful_roles'

I didn't investigate why this hack works, because of lack of time.

Luca
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I renamed the dir the plugin is sitting in from /authorization-plugin to
/authorization.



Lawrence