NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector

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I follwed the example here: http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/12/rails_inflector_in_ruby_scripts/

#!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'active_support/inflector' puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')

I loaded it into irb and wrote a killer script both of which worked perfectly for weeks.

Now when I try and run the script or run these simple example lines of code it doesn't work anymore. And I can't for the life of me figure out what I changed to break it! The last line gives me this error:

irb(main):003:0> puts Inflector.singularize('inflections') NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector         from (irb):3

Does anybody know what might cause this? Is it a new plugin (like action-mailer) that I installed? Is it a bad environmental variable?

Thanks,

Dave

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Quoting dschruth <dschruth@gmail.com>:

I follwed the example here: http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/12/rails_inflector_in_ruby_scripts/

#!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'active_support/inflector' puts Inflector.singularize('inflections')

I loaded it into irb and wrote a killer script both of which worked perfectly for weeks.

Now when I try and run the script or run these simple example lines of code it doesn't work anymore. And I can't for the life of me figure out what I changed to break it! The last line gives me this error:

irb(main):003:0> puts Inflector.singularize('inflections') NameError: uninitialized constant Inflector         from (irb):3

Probably you updated Rails to 2.1.1. The above usage is now deprecated and gives a warning to that effect in Rails. Don't know why no warning in straight Ruby. Anyway, try

puts ActiveSupport::Inflector.singularize('inflections')

HTH,   Jeffrey

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thanks that worked!