accessing module from controller

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I know this is probably something simple that I'm missing. I am trying to call a function that is in a module in /lib, but the controller doesnt seem to be finding it.

I have:

lib/siteopen.rb:

module Siteopen   def is_site_open()     return 1   end end

and in a controller:

class StartupController < ApplicationController   require 'Siteopen'

  def index      if is_site_open()          @sitemsg="The site is now open"      else          @sitemsg="Site is closed."       end    end end

This will give me the following error:

NoMethodError in StartupController#index undefined method `is_site_open' for #<StartupController:0x1045b2ea8>

I'm sure it's something dumb I'm doing. Thanks..

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I know this is probably something simple that I'm missing. I am trying to call a function that is in a module in /lib, but the controller doesnt seem to be finding it.

If you want to be able to use the methods from a module like that you need to include the module (or extend it if you just want to add the methods to one instance). require (which is unnecessary here) just asks ruby to load the file.

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

If you want to be able to use the methods from a module like that you need to include the module (or extend it if you just want to add the methods to one instance). require (which is unnecessary here) just asks ruby to load the file.

Fred

That was it! Thanks,Dave