Observers not working because of AR Plugins? (Rails = 1.2.3)

Rails
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Hi list,

I’ve tried to implement a simple Observer to log changes to my objects.
Whenever I try to enable the observer in my environment.rb, my
application
refuses to start.

Here’s what’s in my environment.rb:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
config.active_record.observers = :audit_observer
end

It seems, that rails can’t find the plugins used in the observed models.
This
was a problem in older rails version (see
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/4684), but I’m using rails 1.2.3,
so
this is already included.

As nearly all my models ar using some plugins, what can I do to get
observers
working?

Here’s the mongrel output:

=> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3005
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3005
** Starting Rails with development environment…
Exiting
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1235:in
method_missing': undefined method acts_as_timeable’ for Client:Class
(NoMethodError)
from ./script/…/config/…/app/models/client.rb:3

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:203:in
`load_file’

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
`new_constants_in’

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:202:in
`load_file’

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:94:in
`require_or_load_without_engine_additions’

from
./script/…/config/…/vendor/plugins/engines/lib/engines/rails_extensions/dependencies.rb:139:in
`require_or_load’

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:248:in
`load_missing_constant’

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:in
`const_missing’
… 38 levels…

from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.3/lib/commands/server.rb:39 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in require’
from script/server:3

Regards,
Timo

2

ok, I was looking into the wrong version of environment.rb.

It looks like this:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
config.plugins = [“engines”, “*”]
config.active_record.observers = :audit_observer
end

I really wonder, why config.plugins = [“engines”, “*”] is causing the
error?
Shouldn’t all plugins get loaded before the observer gets activated?

When I put all plugins into that config.plugins Array, it seems to work.
So,
why does “*” does not work?

Regards,
Timo