It's a Rails question, rather than a Ruby one, but here goes.
The :class_name argument is expecting something of the form
"MacUserGrants", and that might not be the same as your table name
(which is probably "mac_user_grants", as you set it in the config).
It's expecting a string representation of an actual Ruby class (and a
subclass of ActiveRecord::Base in this particular case).
I think you're more likely to want to do something like this:
class Something < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :mac_user_grants
end
class MacUserGrants < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grants_table)
end
... the table name is only really relevant in the class which stores
data in that table in this case.
- james
On 4/6/06, Vincent AE Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm running into a spot of bother with an engine I'm developing. I want
> the table names I'm using to be configurable by the end user, such that
> nothing is hard coded. Having looked through user_engine, I see it
> makes use of things like: UserEngine.config(:some_table). I'm trying
> todo the same thing, like in the following:
>
> has_many :mac_user_grants, :class_name =>
> MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table)
>
> But when i come to use the class this is in I get an error like the
> following:
>
> NameError: undefined local variable or method `mac_user_grants' for
> MacAcl:Class
>
> in my mac_engine.rb file, I have the following:
>
> module MacEngine
> if ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names
> config :mac_user_grant_table, "mac_user_grants"
> else
> config :mac_user_grant_table, "mac_user_grant"
> end
> end
>
> I'm guessing the problem lies with how/what
> MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table) returns, and how it gets
> interpreted.
>
> I've tried the following to no avail:
>
> :class_name => "#{MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table)}"
> :class_name => MacEngine.config(:mac_user_grant_table).to_s
>
> So my question is, and its probably more of a general Ruby question than
> an engines one, what is :class_name expecting, and how can i provide it?
>
>
> -v
>
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