hi there!
unfortunately, we are repeatedly having problems with uninitialized
constants in our rails app (v1.1.6), which is running on a mongrel
cluster behind apache’s mod_proxy_balancer.
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NameError (uninitialized constant Base):
[…]
/app/models/image.rb:90:in subclasses' /app/models/image.rb:98:in subclass?’
/app/models/image.rb:261:in count' /app/controllers/image_controller.rb:95:in list’
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“Base” is actually “Image::Base”, defined in lib/image/base.rb:
class Image::Base.
immediately after a mongrel_cluster restart it’s working for a few
requests, though. (approx. 4 requests, resulting from 4 mongrel
servers being run?) the strange thing just is that everything works
fine when run from script/console … except when commenting out the
“require ‘image/base’” from config/environment.rb! – how come?
code details are as follows:
app/controllers/image_controller.rb: class ImageController <
ApplicationController:
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def list
# Image.count is where all evil originates
@images = ::Paginator.new(Image.count, 10) { |offset, per_page|
Image.find(:all, :limit => per_page, :offset => offset)
}.page(params[:page])
end
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app/models/image.rb: class Image < Entity (Entity < ActiveRecord::Base):
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def count
return super if subclass?
subclasses.inject(0) { |sum, klass|
sum += klass.count
}
end
def subclass?
subclasses.include? self
end
here’s where the uninitialized constant comes in
def subclasses(table_must_exist = true)
Image::Base.subclasses table_must_exist
end
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any ideas on what might cause this (mis-)behaviour would be greatly
appreciated.
TIA & cheers
jens
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