Successfully importing Rubyful Soup objects

Rails
1

All,

At the top of my controller, I have:

require ‘rubygems’
require_gem ‘rubyful_soup’

The rubyful_soup gem has been successfully installed.

However, when I go to instantiate a class from it, using

parser = BeautifulSoup.new(html)

I get

uninitialized constant BeautifulSoup

Is there something else I need to do to see the symbols in the Rubyful
Soup gem?

Thanks,
Wes

P. S. I had this working like 10 minutes ago but I don’t know how - to
be honest.

2

OK,

Here’s the total error

Why is it trying to load a file name beautiful_soup.rb? I mean, I kind
of know why - because I’m invoking a class whose name is BeautifulSoup.
But how do I make Ruby know that the BeautifulSoup class is in
rubyful_soup.rb, which I have successfully “required”?

Wes

==============================================

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in
const_missing' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/e_simply_controller.rb:71:inhas_local_images?’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/e_simply_controller.rb:43:in `save_HTML’
This error occured while loading the following files:
beautiful_soup.rb

Wes G. wrote:

All,

At the top of my controller, I have:

require ‘rubygems’
require_gem ‘rubyful_soup’

The rubyful_soup gem has been successfully installed.

However, when I go to instantiate a class from it, using

parser = BeautifulSoup.new(html)

I get

uninitialized constant BeautifulSoup

Is there something else I need to do to see the symbols in the Rubyful
Soup gem?

Thanks,
Wes

P. S. I had this working like 10 minutes ago but I don’t know how - to
be honest.

3

OK,

I bounce my browser and it works.

That makes no #@#$@@#$@&*#$)@$& sense.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why my browser caching makes any
difference to the successful use of a gem in my controller?

Wes

Wes G. wrote:

OK,

Here’s the total error

Why is it trying to load a file name beautiful_soup.rb? I mean, I kind
of know why - because I’m invoking a class whose name is BeautifulSoup.
But how do I make Ruby know that the BeautifulSoup class is in
rubyful_soup.rb, which I have successfully “required”?

Wes

==============================================

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in
const_missing' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/e_simply_controller.rb:71:inhas_local_images?’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/e_simply_controller.rb:43:in `save_HTML’
This error occured while loading the following files:
beautiful_soup.rb

Wes G. wrote:

All,

At the top of my controller, I have:

require ‘rubygems’
require_gem ‘rubyful_soup’

The rubyful_soup gem has been successfully installed.

However, when I go to instantiate a class from it, using

parser = BeautifulSoup.new(html)

I get

uninitialized constant BeautifulSoup

Is there something else I need to do to see the symbols in the Rubyful
Soup gem?

Thanks,
Wes

P. S. I had this working like 10 minutes ago but I don’t know how - to
be honest.