FileUtils/ActiveRecord help please?

Does anybody know how to make FileUtils and ActiveRecord coexist? Every
attempt I have made results in errors like those quoted below.

[belladonna-grr] ~ <0> irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require ‘fileutils’
=> true
irb(main):003:0> include FileUtils
=> Object
irb(main):004:0> require_gem ‘activerecord’
=> true
irb(main):005:0> Fileutils.copy(“h1”, “h2”)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:93: warning: already initialized
constant OPT_TABLE
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1146: warning: already initialized
constant S_IF_DOOR
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1447: warning: already initialized
constant METHODS
NameError: undefined method options' for classModule’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1517:in public' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1517 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1516 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:140:inload’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:56:in
require_or_load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:30:independ_on’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:85:in
require_dependency' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:98:inconst_missing’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:131:in
`const_missing’
from (irb):5

Thanks,

Ken

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