# Is Services a reserved word?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-services-a-reserved-word/117442>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 16, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-services-a-reserved-word/117442 "2007-10-16T23:28:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-services-a-reserved-word/117442/1 "2007-10-16T23:28:05Z")

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I want to have a controller/model called  
services\_controller.rb/service.rb

all went well, but then I tried to get a ‘list’ view and I got this  
error…

Message  
uninitialized constant  
ServicesController::Services  
Location  
/services/list  
Action  
list  
Controller  
services

which worries me because it doesn’t say  
ServicesController::ApplicationController

must I rename?  
;-(

–  
Craig W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-services-a-reserved-word/117442/2 "2007-10-17T00:45:49Z")

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:27 -0700, Craig W. wrote:

> /services/list  
> Action  
> list  
> Controller  
> services
> 
> which worries me because it doesn’t say  
> ServicesController::ApplicationController
> 
> must I rename?  
> ;-(

* * *

no - pebkac

–  
Craig W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-services-a-reserved-word/117442/3 "2007-10-17T07:18:59Z")

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This most likely happened because you tried to do Services.find()  
instead of Service.find().

-Bill