Constants defined in initializer not found when running gems:install in test

rubyonrails-talk
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Dear all,

I am setting some constants in an initializer, which are used in validations in my models. When I run

  RAILS_ENV=test rake gems:install

I get missing constant errors for these, but not when I run

  RAILS_ENV=development rake gems:install

It only happens for the gems:install task in test. Everything else (e.g. rake test) works as expected. What could be the problem?

Thanks for your help

Tobi

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The problem you ran into was the same one as this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/56c560bd46347d12

and both are caused by load_application_classes trying to load all your models at startup. That routine does nothing when config.cache_classes is false (the default in development mode, but not in test).

As a quick workaround, try setting config.cache_classes to false in environments/test.rb to get the gems installed.

--Matt Jones