NoMethodError: undefined method `configuration' for #<String inside railties?

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I'm in the middle of upgrading an application to rails 2.0.2 from 1.2.5 and on startup I see this message printed out: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `configuration' for #<String: 0x1145040>> After some hacking I've figured out it emanates from plugin.rb in railties (railties/lib/rails/plugin.rb) in the following block:

def evaluate_init_rb(initializer)          if has_init_file?            silence_warnings do              # Allow plugins to reference the current configuration object              config = initializer.configuration

             eval(IO.read(init_path), binding, init_path)            end          end       end

In the instances I have seen the failure occur, initializer is a string that is the path to an init.rb file inside a plugin.

Has anyone seen this? Is it harmless? Is it because of some plugins not doing the right thing for rails 2?

thanks