I'm using the acts_as_ferret plugin successfully in a Rails application but I also need to be able to use it (and ActiveRecord) outside of Rails. Before I added the acts_as_ferret to the model I was able to use ActiveRecord outside of Rails, but with acts_as_ferret it fails as follows:
$ ruby runner.rb development
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- acts_as_ferret (MissingSourceFile) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in `require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:337:in `new_constants_in' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in `require' from spider.rb:7 from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in `require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:337:in `new_constants_in' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1.5618/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in `require' from components/runner.rb:8
I guess that this is something to do with me not including all of the correct files but I'm having problems working out how. Is there a 'proper' way of using ActiveRecord outside of Rails (using 1.2 RC2)? Currently I'm using the code sample from the Rails recipes book.
Cheers,
Ben
