[Backgroundrb-devel] Unable to load Models which reference plugins?

[James Howison]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Yves-Eric Martin wrote:

> James Howison wrote:
>> ps. Is there any smart automated way to change a Rails Model's  
>> name,  it is scattered all over the place, in files and filenames,  
>> not to  mention the database?
>
> Yes, it can be a real pain to rename a model. That is why the  
> "rename your model" solution made me wince...
>
> As you pointed out, plugins should be very verbose with their  
> namespace/paths in order to avoid conflicting with the main  
> application. Now a small problem with
>
> require './vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/framework/event.rb'
>
> is that the path is hardcoded. It could be something else (I could  
> have checked out the plugin code into ./vendor/plugins/BackgrounDRb).

Indeed.

> I went through some other plugins code to look for best practices,  
> and it looks like a better way to do it would be:
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/event'
>
> Can you check and see if that works?

Yes, that seems to work (bdrb starts ok), nice one.  Does that take  
care of potential namespace issues, though, maybe still need a unique  
surrounding package?

--J