Net::LDAP

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Im having difficulties setting up my controller to connect to our ldap server. I've searched around in google and found wikis of snippets of some code to set ruby ldap. Below is what I currently have but Im getting "uninitialized constant LDAP" when I try to access the login. Im not what what Im missing or how to debug this. Any suggestions or tips is appreciated.

class LoginController < ApplicationController

  #Bind with the main credential and query the full DN of the email address   #given to us as a parameter, then unbind and rebind as the user.   def self.authenticate(username,password)     logger.debug("username = " + username)

    ldap_con = initialize_ldap_con(username,password)     treebase = "DC=domain,DC=domainext"     mail_filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( "mail", '...@test.com' )     op_filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( "objectClass", "organizationalPerson" )     dn = String.new     ldap_con.search( :base => treebase, :filter => op_filter & mail_filter, :attributes=> 'dn') do |entry|       dn = entry.dn     end     login_succeeded = false     unless dn.empty?       ldap_con = initialize_ldap_con(dn,password)       login_succeeded = true if ldap_con.bind     end     logger.debug("login_succeeded = " + login_succeeded)     login_succeeded   end

  private   def self.initialize_ldap_con(user_name, password)     Net::LDAP.new( {:host => 'hostnamehere', :port => 389, :auth => { :method => :simple, :username => user_name, :password => password }} )   end

  def index      case @request.method       when :post         if @session['user'] = LoginController.authenticate(@params['user_login'], @params['user_password'])

          flash['notice'] = "Login successful"           redirect_back_or_default :action => "overview"         else           @login = @params['user_login']           @message = "Login unsuccessful"       end     end   end end

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Here is my embarrasingly simplest-thing-that-could-work:

class LoginTestController < ApplicationController   def index     ldap = Net::LDAP.new     ldap.host = 'COSEAD.cose.win2k'     ldap.port = 389     ldap.auth 'username@cose.win2k', 'some_test_password'     if ldap.bind       # authentication succeeded       render :text=>'yay'     else       # authentication failed       render :text=>'boo'     end   end end

That at least makes sure the LDAP part works, then it's simple to build out the Rails part.

Ron