Please help me figure out whether to put the application configuration below inside or outside of the Rails::Initializer in environment.rb. The application runs regardless of the position of the application configuration. However, a unit test fails if the application configuration is outside the block but will pass if the configuration is inside the block. Below are the code.
environment.rb: Code : - fold - unfold 1. RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION 2. require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot') 3. 4. Rails::Initializer.run do |config| 5. 6. config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store 7. 8. config.gem 'mislav-will_paginate', :version => '~> 2.3.8', :lib => 'will_paginate', 9. :source => 'http://gems.github.com' 10. 11. end 12. 13. # Include your application configuration below 14. require 'acts_as_ferret' 15. require 'will_paginate' 16. 17. DB_STRING_MAX_LENGTH = 255 18. DB_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH = 40000 19. HTML_TEXT_FIELD_SIZE = 15 test_helper: Code : - fold - unfold 1. ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test" 2. require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment") 3. require 'test_help' 4. 5. class ActiveSupport::TestCase 6. ... 7. end faq_test.rb: Code : - fold - unfold 1. require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper' 2. 3. class FaqTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase 4. fixtures :faqs 5. 6. def setup 7. @valid_faq = faqs(:valid_faq) 8. end 9. 10. def test_max_lengths 11. Faq::QUESTIONS.each do |question| 12. assert_length :max, @valid_faq, question, DB_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH 13. end 14. end 15. end faq.rb: Code : - fold - unfold 1. class Faq < ActiveRecord::Base 2. belongs_to :user 3. acts_as_ferret 4. 5. QUESTIONS = %w(bio skillz schools companies 6. music movies television books magazines) 7. # A constant for everything except the bio 8. FAVORITES = QUESTIONS - %w(bio) 9. TEXT_ROWS = 10 10. TEXT_COLS = 40 11. 12. validates_length_of QUESTIONS, 13. :maximum => DB_TEXT_MAX_LENGTH 14. 15. def initialize 16. super 17. QUESTIONS.each do |question| 18. self[question] = "" 19. end 20. end 21. end When I run the unit test, with the application configuration outside the initializer block as above, I get the error that none of the variable outside the block is defined. If I move the "require" lines inside the block, the error will say that the constants are not defined, etc. (The line numbers in the error messages below may not be the same as the code line numbers above): Code : - fold - unfold 1. ibookG4:rails_space Beo$ rake test:units 2. (in /Users/Beo/Documents/Mesh/rails_space) 3. /opt/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/faq_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/community_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/faq_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/profile_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/site_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/spec_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/user_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/spec_test.rb" "test/unit/user_test.rb" 4. /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1964:in `method_missing_without_paginate': undefined local variable or method `acts_as_ferret' for #<Class:0x1a52430> (NameError) 5. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mislav-will_paginate-2.3.11/lib/will_paginate/finder.rb:170:in `method_missing' 6. from /Users/Beo/Documents/Mesh/rails_space/app/models/faq.rb:3 7. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' 8. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' 9. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in `require' 10. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:265:in `require_or_load' 11. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:224:in `depend_on' 12. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:136:in `require_dependency' 13. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:393:in `load_application_classes' 14. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:392:in `each' 15. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:392:in `load_application_classes' 16. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:390:in `each' 17. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:390:in `load_application_classes' 18. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:195:in `process' 19. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `send' 20. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `run' 21. from /Users/Beo/Documents/Mesh/rails_space/config/environment.rb:9 22. from ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:2:in `require' 23. from ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:2 24. from ./test/unit/faq_test.rb:1:in `require' 25. from ./test/unit/faq_test.rb:1 26. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in `load' 27. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5 28. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5:in `each' 29. from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5 30. rake aborted! 31. Command failed with status (1): [/opt/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/opt/loc...] 32. 33. (See full trace by running task with --trace) I am running the following gems. My plugins folder is empty: Code : - fold - unfold 1. ibookG4:rails_space Beo$ gem list 2. 3. *** LOCAL GEMS *** 4. 5. actionmailer (2.3.2) 6. actionpack (2.3.2) 7. activerecord (2.3.2) 8. activeresource (2.3.2) 9. activesupport (2.3.2) 10. acts_as_ferret (0.4.4) 11. ferret (0.11.6) 12. mislav-will_paginate (2.3.11) 13. mysql (2.7) 14. rails (2.3.2) 15. rake (0.8.7) 16. rubygems-update (1.3.3) You may say that I should just move them all inside the block and be done with it. After all, the application runs fine with those inside the block. However, according to the book "RailsSpace" that I am following, those app config should be outside the block. I've read also that the require lines for acts_as_ferret and will_paginate should be outside the block. I am afraid that if I leave them inside the block, I may have some problems down the road. Please help. Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
