# Ferret Demo application - failed

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-demo-application-failed/159583>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [February 6, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-demo-application-failed/159583 "2009-02-06T00:59:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![chudomir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@chudomir](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chudomir)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-demo-application-failed/159583/1 "2009-02-06T00:59:13Z")

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Hi all,

I decided to try the demo project that comes with the Ferret plugin and  
following the instructions in the README\_DEMO file faced this problem.

I guess it is luck of experience but I could not solve this problem.  
Any ideas are welcome.  
Thank you in advance.

Regards  
Chudomir

ferret 0.4.3  
ruby 1.8.6  
Rails 2.1.0

[root@moonlight demo]# rake  
(in /home/Ruby/Ferret/actsasferret/doc/demo)  
/usr/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
“/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb”  
“test/functional/admin/backend\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/contents\_controller\_test.rb”  
“test/functional/searches\_controller\_test.rb”  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:278:in  
`load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant ActsAsFerret (NameError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:467:in`const\_missing’  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:479:in  
`const_missing' from /home/Ruby/Ferret/actsasferret/doc/demo/config/environment.rb:56 from ./test/functional/admin/../../test_helper.rb:2:in`require’  
from ./test/functional/admin/…/…/test\_helper.rb:2  
from ./test/functional/admin/backend\_controller\_test.rb:1:in  
`require' from ./test/functional/admin/backend_controller_test.rb:1 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in`load’  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5:in  
`each’  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5  
/usr/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
“/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb”  
Errors running test:units and test:functionals!