# ActiveShipping throwing error in build\_access\_request

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activeshipping-throwing-error-in-build-access-request/142064>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activeshipping-throwing-error-in-build-access-request/142064 "2008-07-03T04:16:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nik_B)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activeshipping-throwing-error-in-build-access-request/142064/1 "2008-07-03T04:16:10Z")

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I’m using ActiveShipping to try and query for shipping rates - and  
when I’m getting an error when it’s building xmlnode.

The full code calls and the stack trace are here:

[http://pastie.org/226833](http://pastie.org/226833)

but here are snippets:

result = ups.find\_rates(origin, destination, packages)

NameError (undefined local variable or method `transitive' for <UNDEFINED> ... </>:REXML::Document): /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:186:in `write’  
/vendor/plugins/active\_shipping/lib/vendor/xml\_node/lib/  
xml\_node.rb:216:in `to_xml' /vendor/plugins/active_shipping/lib/active_shipping/shipping/ carriers/ups.rb:94:in `build\_access\_request’  
/vendor/plugins/active\_shipping/lib/active\_shipping/shipping/  
carriers/ups.rb:80:in `find\_rates’