# Active\_Ldap Base Config Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 11, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819 "2009-11-11T19:39:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/1 "2009-11-11T19:39:26Z")
I haven’t done much with polling AD in the past but I am now trying to write a basic script using active\_ldap that pulls a list of users from AD. The following code I have here doesn’t work but the thing that bothers me the most is that when I use a sniffer on the AD server, I don’t see any attempt by the script to communicate with the server. require ‘rubygems’ require ‘active\_ldap’ ActiveLdap::Base.setup\_connection( :host =\> “10.1.1.1”, :user =\> “admin”, :password =\> “password”, :base =\> “dc=voice,dc=company,dc=com” ) all\_users = Group.find(:all, ‘\*’) puts all\_users The actual error I get is: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:443:in `load\_missing\_constant’: uninitialized constant Group (NameError) Any ideas as to why this basic config isn’t working? Thanks jack ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/2 "2009-11-11T21:02:57Z")
Haven’t used that particular gem (I use ActiveDirectory myself) but it looks like just a namespace issue. You haven’t included the namespace therefore you would require the full object path e.g. ActiveLdap::Group.find(:all, “\*”) ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/3 "2009-11-11T21:21:11Z")
Putting in the full object path renders the same error message, I’m afraid. To be honest, I don’t have a preference toward Active\_Ldap, I just thought that it was the most common way to do AD lookups but if ActiveDirectory works for you, can you please give me a link to the binary (unleass it’s a gem?) and perhaps a sample of a base config? thanks jack ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/4 "2009-11-11T22:48:19Z")
Sorry I just assumed: are you running rails? That’s what I was using it with so I just made the assumption. Better question: What version of ruby and gem are you running? ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/5 "2009-11-11T22:38:22Z")
Ah, my bad. For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong 🙂 The ActiveDirectory lib works for me but hasn’t been updated in a while. It can be found at: [http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activedirectory/](http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activedirectory/) Setup is fairly much the same: ActiveDirectory::Base.server\_settings = { :host =\> “hostname or ip address”, :port =\> 3268, :username =\> “username”, :password =\> “password”, :domain =\> “your.ad.domain.here”, :base\_dn =\> “DC=your,DC=base,DC=dn” } But I get the feeling that you might have the same issue. I seem to remember that this was a rails+gem version problem since I had this this same issue with the activedirectory gem once upon a time. What version of rails are you using? Did you upgrade it recently? ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/6 "2009-11-11T22:52:44Z")
Sven S. wrote: > Sorry I just assumed: are you running rails? That’s what I was using it > with > so I just made the assumption. Better question: What version of ruby and > gem > are you running? Yes, I’m running this directly through ruby version 1.8.6. Gems is version 1.3.5 thanks ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/7 "2009-11-11T23:08:13Z")
I just installed and tried it and got the same thing. I read the docs and found that you need to subclass Base to get a mapping. e.g. class User \< ActiveLdap::Base ldap\_mapping end And the config is different. So here is what I got so far: require ‘active\_ldap’ ActiveLdap::Base.setup\_connection( :host =\> “hostname”, :bind\_dn =\> “username”, :password =\> “passwords”, :base =\> “DC=your,DC=ldap,DC=base” ) class User \< ActiveLdap::Base ldap\_mapping end That gets me the connection at least. ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/8 "2009-11-11T23:23:17Z")
unfortunately, that doesn’t give me a tcp connection either…but thanks for the effort jack ---
**Author:** ![jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jackster](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jackster)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/active-ldap-base-config-question/178819/9 "2009-11-12T15:46:46Z")
Hi, In [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) “Active\_Ldap Base Config Question” on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:39:28 +0900, jackster the jackle [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > :host =\> “10.1.1.1”, > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:443:in > `load\_missing\_constant’: uninitialized constant Group (NameError) > > Any ideas as to why this basic config isn’t working? You need to define your Group class: class Group \< ActiveLdap::Base ldap\_mapping :dn\_attribute =\> “cn”, :classes =\> [‘posixGroup’] # Inspired by ActiveRecord, this tells ActiveLDAP that the # LDAP entry has a attribute which contains one or more of # some class |:class\_name| where the attributes name is # |:local\_key|. This means that it will call # :class\_name.new(value\_of(:local\_key)) to create the objects. has\_many :members, :class\_name =\> “User”, :wrap =\> “memberUid” has\_many :primary\_members, :class\_name =\> ‘User’, :foreign\_key =\> ‘gidNumber’, :primary\_key =\> ‘gidNumber’ end # Group # from [http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activeldap/source/browse/trunk/examples/objects/group.rb](http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activeldap/source/browse/trunk/examples/objects/group.rb) I confused the lines: > all\_users = Group.find(:all, ‘\*’) > puts all\_users Did you want to write like the following? all\_groups = Group.all puts all\_groups Thanks,