[Backgroundrb-devel] Jabber namespace strangeness in workers when config.gem 'xmpp4r' is set

[Ed W]

Todd Tyree wrote:
> Just spent three bloody hours looking for the cause of this, so I 
> thought I'd save anyone else having the same problem the trouble:
>
> In the process of porting our existing app to 2.1.0 and decided I'd 
> use the config.gem functionality.  I've got a legacy worker–working 
> that passes off messages to our ejabberd server and works fine.  It 
> depends on xmpp4r.  Yesterday, as part of a larger set of changes, I 
> checked in environment.rb with the line: config.gem 'xmpp4r', :version 
> => '0.3.2'.  Today, on restarting backgroundrb, the xmpp worker 
> suddenly starts throwing the following exception:
>
>   uninitialized constant XmppWorker::Jabber (NameError)
>
> I went through everything I could think of before finally digging back 
> through the svn diff and noticing the config.gem 'xmpp4r'.  Commented 
> it out and, hey presto!, everything went back to normal. 

Could it possibly be causing the gems to load in a different order to 
normal (hence triggering the error due to some dependency issue?)

Ed W