I am dealing with a large project. I use a lot of STI and therfore have a lot of models. I'd like to use namespaces to help organize my models but am having trouble getting started.
I have a base model Term::Base located in /app/models/term/base.rb:
class Term::Base < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "terms" end
I have a non-namespaced client model:
class Client < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :terms, :class_name => "Term::Base" end
When I try to access a client's terms, i get:
Client.find(1).terms
ArgumentError: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:399:in `to_constant_name': Anonymous modules have no name to be referenced by from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:1363:in `compute_type' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:211:in `qualified_name_for' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:470:in `const_missing' from (eval):1:in `compute_type' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:1066:in `instantiate_without_callbacks' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:204:in `instantiate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:424:in `find_by_sql' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:424:in `collect!' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:424:in `find_by_sql' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:994:in `find_every' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/base.rb:415:in `find' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb:91:in `find' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:159:in `find_target' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb:123:in `load_target' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:122:in `method_missing' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4.5618/lib/active_record/associations/has_many_association.rb:98:in `method_missing' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:298:in `output_value' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:151:in `eval_input' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:259:in `signal_status' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:147:in `eval_input' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:70:in `start' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `catch' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `start' from /usr/local/bin/irb:13>>
It works if I "unnamespace" my Term::* models by putting them in /app/models/ and removing the Term:: prefixes and of course removing the :class_name => "Term::Base" from the association.
Any ideas fellas?
Todd Boland