Getting uninitialized constant error from unused gem - ruby-on-rails

I was trying to use the Addressable gem in a specific action in Rails.
My usual practice is to include the gem in the Gemfile, and then require the module where needed.
Gemfile:
gem 'addressable'
some_controller.rb:
class SomeController < ApplicationController
def new
require "addressable/uri"
current_url = Addressable::URI.parse(request.original_url)
....
end
end
However, I was getting a 500 error on other actions/controllers that did not use the gem.
Error during failsafe response: uninitialized constant Addressable
Finally, I removed all the code calling addressable, but kept the entry in the gemfile, and the 500 error persists on all actions. Why would this be?

Not sure why you're getting that specific error, but with a gem like Addressable where you don't want an automatic require 'addressable' performed then in your Gemfile you should have:
gem 'addressable', :require => false

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Rails gem resque-loner NameError (uninitialized constant Resque::Plugins::UniqueJob)

I have installed the gem, required from initializers and restarted server. But I get this error.
Gemfile
gem "resque-loner"
config/initializers/resque.rb
require 'resque-loner'
RefreshItemsJob
class RefreshItemsJob < ApplicationJob
include Resque::Plugins::UniqueJob

NameError - uninitialized constant Zip

I am trying to unzip a file in my Spree plugin.
Defined the unzipping method in a module which looks like this.
module ImportImages
class Zipper
def self.unzip(zip, unzip_dir, remove_after = false)
Zip::File.open(zip) do |zip_file|
zip_file.each do |f|
f_path=File.join(unzip_dir, f.name)
FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(f_path))
zip_file.extract(f, f_path) unless File.exist?(f_path)
end
end
FileUtils.rm(zip) if remove_after
end
end
end
I have included the rubyzip gem in my Gemfile.
gem 'rubyzip'
gem 'zip-zip'
When trying to run it, I am getting the following error.
NameError - uninitialized constant ImportImages::Zipper::Zip:
I have tried every solution provided in stackoverflow and other sites. I tried downgrading the version of rubyzip which is 1.2.0 now and add require 'zip' or require 'zip/zip'. Both returned load error.
I have try adding require 'zip/filesystem' to the class. But got
LoadError - cannot load such file -- zip/zipfilesystem
Any solution for this?
Include rubyzip in gem file in this way:
gem 'rubyzip', require: 'zip'
See this question
It's looking for a nested Constant. Change line Zip::File.open(zip) do |zip_file| with below:
::Zip::File.open(zip) do |zip_file|
It should work.
Also make sure you require rubygem/bundle setup. Though in spree it should've already been done.
Babar's answer is correct, but you also need to add require 'zip' in application_controller.rb

Rails 3: Routing Error - uninitialized constant MyController::Google

I'm using the google-api-client gem (gem google-api-client, '0.4.1' in my Gemfile). The following code caused the error uninitialized constant MyController::Google:
class MyController < ApplicationController
def index
#client = Google::APIClient.new
end
end
Specifying ::Google::APIClient didn't help, the error then said uninitialized constant Google.
Simply adding a require 'google/api_client' at the top of the file made this go away, so it seems there's something wrong in how auto-loading is being done. Not sure what's going on here exactly, specifying the gem in my Gemfile should have automatically required the gem, right? I have restarted the rails server btw.
Try adding a :require => 'google/api_client' where you specify the google api client gem in the Gemfile
gem 'google-api-client', :require => 'google/api_client'
This tells bundler that the correct way to require the gem 'google-api-client' is to require 'google/api_client'

Getting uninitialized constant error when trying to run tests

I just updated all my gems and I'm finding that I'm getting errors when trying to run Test::Unit tests. I'm getting the error copied below. That comes from creating new, empty Rails project, scaffolding a simple model, and running rake test.
Tried Googling "uninitialized constant" and TestResultFailureSupport. The only thing I found was this bug report from 2007.
I'm using OS X.
These are the gems that I updated right before the tests stopped working:
$ sudo gem outdated
Password:
RedCloth (4.2.1 < 4.2.2)
RubyInline (3.8.1 < 3.8.2)
ZenTest (4.1.1 < 4.1.3)
bluecloth (2.0.4 < 2.0.5)
capistrano (2.5.5 < 2.5.8)
haml (2.0.9 < 2.2.1)
hoe (2.2.0 < 2.3.2)
json (1.1.6 < 1.1.7)
mocha (0.9.5 < 0.9.7)
rest-client (1.0.2 < 1.0.3)
thoughtbot-factory_girl (1.2.1 < 1.2.2)
thoughtbot-shoulda (2.10.1 < 2.10.2)
Has anyone else seen this issue? Any troubleshooting suggestions?
UPDATE
On a hunch I downgraded ZenTest from 4.1.3 back to 4.1.1 and now everything works again.
Still curious to know if anyone else has seen this or has any interesting comments or insights.
$ rake test
(in /Users/me/foo)
/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/helpers/users_helper_test.rb" "test/unit/user_test.rb"
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant Test::Unit::TestResult::TestResultFailureSupport (NameError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/test-unit-2.0.2/lib/test/unit/testresult.rb:28
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/test-unit-2.0.2/lib/test/unit/ui/testrunnermediator.rb:9
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in `require'
... 6 levels...
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/autorunner.rb:214:in `run'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/autorunner.rb:12:in `run'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit.rb:278
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb:5
/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/functional/users_controller_test.rb"
This can happen if modules are declared in a single statement when the parent module they are nested inside has not yet been loaded. I haven't looked at the code in those gems, but my hunch is that's what is happening. Chuck's solution would suggest that. calling gem 'test-unit' first will load the parent module, so the setup of zen test ends up working ok.
e.g.
module Foo::Bar
def do_stuff
# insert awesomeness here...
end
end
Will result in an error if the parent Foo module hasn't already been defined (e.g. by another gem)
A safer way to declare this is
module Foo
module Bar
def do_stuff
# insert awesomeness here...
end
end
end
May be a bug in Zentest that needs patching.
This apparently comes from using Test::Unit 2.0 with the old Test::Unit. According to Kouhei Sutou on RubyForge, it can be fixed by calling gem 'test-unit' before you require 'test/unit'.
As this link suggests http://floehopper.lighthouseapp.com/projects/22289-mocha/tickets/50
it may happen due to preliminary initialization of mocha lib.
To prevent it from happeing it is advisable to add line
config.gem 'test-unit', :lib => 'test/unit'
to config/environment.rb
Here is the recipe for test_unit 2.0.7 on Rails 2.3.5:
In config/environments/test.rb:
config.gem 'test-unit', :version => '2.0.7', :lib => false
In test_helper.rb,
add require 'test/unit',
immediately after require 'test_help'
So it looks like this:
require 'test_help'
require 'test/unit'
If you receive this error:
%': one hash required (ArgumentError),
upgrade gem i18n to v0.3.6.
I was getting this without mocha or shoulda installed.
This post suggests it's due to an incompatibility in test-unit >= 2.0, which I installed as a dependency for the systools gems. Downgrading to 1.2.3 worked for me, a simple require might also.
Same issue with me too.
Nothing above mentioned worked for me except downgrading test-unit back to 1.2.3
I'm missing the coloring of the test-unit 2.x
Found the (ugly) solution:
gem 'unit/test'
must be called inside the tests too, not only in the Rakefile.
I ran into this today on Mac OS X 10.6. My solution is as follows:
config.gem 'test-unit', :lib => 'test/unit', :version => '1.2.3'
config.gem 'autotest'
config.gem 'cucumber'
config.gem 'cucumber-rails', :lib => false
config.gem 'ffaker', :lib => 'faker'
config.gem 'rspec', :lib => false, :version => '>= 1.2.0'
config.gem 'rspec-rails', :lib => false, :version => '>= 1.2.0'
config.gem 'selenium-client', :lib => 'selenium'
config.gem "thoughtbot-factory_girl", :lib => 'factory_girl', :source => "http://gems.github.com"
config.gem 'thoughtbot-shoulda', :lib => 'shoulda'
config.gem 'webrat'
config.gem 'ZenTest', :lib => 'zentest'
As with aronchick's comment, for me (OS X 10.6) solution was
sudo gem uninstall test-unit
all versions.
You get auto_test to work again with something like
RUBY="ruby -I.:lib:test -rubygems -e 'gem \"test-unit\"'" autotest
I am not a nuby to rails but I am still learning and hopefully always will be :-).
Rails 2.3 production environment using Ruby Enterprise Edition and passenger can produce a totally misleading useless error during startup (/var/log/passenger.log). Something like:
Exception NameError in PhusionPassenger::Rack::ApplicationSpawner (uninitialized constant XXX)
If you run script/console on the production server, you may see:
Loading production environment (Rails 2.3.4)
/home/ubuntu/MyApp/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:in const_missing:NameError: uninitialized constant XXX
This is happening to me in this instance only in production environment, not staging, not development. After a full day of research and experiments, I have concluded that in the production environment, REE or something must pre-load classes and the pre-loader apparently does not like to see classes being re-opened before they are created (an educated guess).
In app/models/calendar.rb:
Class Calendar < ActiveRecord::Base
# This defines the class
End
In app/models/event.rb
Class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
# This desined the class
End
Class Calendar
# This is supposed to 're-open' the Calendar class
has_many :events
end
The above generic sample code snippet can cause startup issue. I am not sure of the order that pre-loading classes takes place but I suspect that may be the issue. I moved the ‘has_many :events’ into the class definition in app/modeles/calendar.rb and my app now starts without error.
So, a good rule to follow is to put your Active Record Associations (has_many, belongs_to) inside the defining class (where the class is created).
If you add the following line to your environment.rb, or your config/environments/test.rb this should fix the issue
config.gem "test-unit", :lib => "test/unit", :version => ">=2.0.9", :env => "test"
I Believe you will need to add it before the mocha line if you use mocha.

'no such file to load -- net/ssh' from rails Controller on Ubuntu

I have a very simple controller:
require 'net/ssh'
class MyController < ApplicationController
def foo
render :text => 'bar'
end
end
But when I request http://server:3000/my/foo I get:
MissingSourceFile in MyController#foo
no such file to load -- net/ssh
The gem is installed
> gem list net-ssh
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
net-ssh (2.0.11)
Also, I tried require 'net/ssh' in IRB, and it works.
MyController works fine on Windows, but fail on Ubuntu.
What can be wrong?
In a project I am working on we have used the config/environment.rb file to hold the gem require stuff. So
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
# ...
config.gem 'net-ssh'
config.gem 'daemons'
config.gem 'slave'
config.gem 'vpim'
config.gem 'json'
# ...
end
I think you will require 'net-ssh' rather than 'net/ssh'. However we did run into a problem where have a hyphen in the name of the gem led to failures. Then we had to do
config.gem 'Ruby-IRC', :lib => 'IRC'
so that version maybe required for you. So that would be
config.gem 'net-ssh', :lib => 'net/ssh'
in case of rails 3.0
this solution if OK.
add this in the yourapp/Gemfile,
gem 'net-ssh
This may help:
Rails Gem Dependencies and Plugin Errors
This is also worth watching:
Railscasts: Gem Dependencies
In my case, since it's a stand alone ruby app, I only needed to require rubygems.
You can also use Dr Nic's ''gemsonrails'' and load vendored gems as plugins, check:
http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org
I think, the original problem was that I used normal user instead of root:
$ gem install net-ssh
WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and
/usr/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING: You don't have /home/alex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH,
gem executables will not run.
So, I guess, rails could not find this gem.

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