ActiveResource: a tag that has the same name as an existing class

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I've got an ActiveRecord::Base class named Tracker. I've also got an ActiveResource class named MyConfig that will read an xml file that looks like:

<my-config>   <tracker>     <name>foo</name>   </tracker> </my-config>

class MyConfig < ActiveResource::Base   self.site = "http://localhost" end

If I do MyConfig.find(1), I get:

NoMethodError: undefined method `name=' for #<Tracker:0x2487378>

ARes apparently creates new classes for all these sub-elements, and it does them in the MyConfig context (so it should make MyConfig::Tracker). If I type MyConfig::Tracker into the console, I get

MyConfig::Tracker

(irb):13: warning: toplevel constant Tracker referenced by MyConfig::Tracker => Tracker

Why is it doing this? And how do I fix it? I need to keep my Tracker ActiveRecord class, and the xml file has to have the <tracker> element.

Pat