Const_missing

Rails
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I’ve run into what I suspect is a total newbie error. Any help
appreciated!

I have a mysql db table called “content”.

I created a model rb class called app/models/content.rb

class Content < ActiveRecord::Base
end

I setup a controller file like this:

class NewsController < ApplicationController
def index
@article=Content.find(:all)
end
end

And I have a simple index view file, views/index.rhtml

I hit the url:
http://localhost:3000/news/index/

and I get this meaningless error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:493:in
const_missing' app/controllers/news_controller.rb:3:in index’

My config/database.yml is set to point to my local mysql db.

Ruby version 1.8.6 (i686-darwin8.11.1)
RubyGems version 1.3.0
Rails version 2.1.1
Active Record version 2.1.1
Action Pack version 2.1.1
Active Resource version 2.1.1
Action Mailer version 2.1.1
Active Support version 2.1.1
Application root /Users/andrew/dev/ruby/myapps/jazzhouston
Environment development
Database adapter mysql
Database schema version 0

Any ideas?

2

On Oct 4, 8:37 pm, Andrew L. [email protected]
wrote:

I’ve run into what I suspect is a total newbie error. Any help
appreciated!

I have a mysql db table called “content”.

I created a model rb class called app/models/content.rb

for a class called Content, the table name should be contents

And I have a simple index view file, views/index.rhtml

I hit the url:http://localhost:3000/news/index/

and I get this meaningless error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/de pendencies.rb:493:in
const_missing' app/controllers/news_controller.rb:3:in index’

That means that when it got to line 3 in your controller it hit a
constant it couldn’t fine (Content by the looks of it). Not sure why,
given the information you’ve given. The full error trace might have
more info, it could also indicate that something bad happened while
loading content.db. If that is the case then running script/console
and evaluating just
Content
should give a more helpful error.

Fred

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for a class called Content, the table name should be contents

Thanks – I just found the details on how to handle that:

class Content < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name “content”
set_primary_key “content_id”
end

(Note: Do I need to bounce the server (I did) anytime a model change
happens?)

My database.yml looks like this:

development:
adapter: mysql
database: mydb
username: myuser
password: mypass
host: localhost

And the same for test and production

Running the console gives this:

MacBook-Pro:~/dev/ruby/myapps/jazzhouston$ script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.1)
Consol>> Content
NameError: uninitialized constant Content
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:279:in
load_missing_constant' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:468:inconst_missing’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:480:in
`const_missing’
from (irb):1

Any ideas?

Thanks!

4

Well every mistake teaches you something, and I definitely learned a bit
about RoR today!

The problem? A typo! I had my model file named content.db instead of
content.rb

I found this by debugging inside of lib/active_support/dependencies.rb

Duh. Thanks again.