From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T23:47:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails and dirty namespaces

Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> Hey people
> 
> Just had quite an experience deploying my Rails app to Textdrive -
> the Nitro gem was installed and there was a class in the Glue module
> with the same name as my model... it took me two days to figure it out!
> 
> What I don't understand is how Glue got included in my project, since
> all the Rails code I looked at makes no mention of it and I didn't
> 'require' it. Running irb, the offending class was not there,
> running script/console, it was included!
> 
> How do I track down where it was included? Is there a way to list the
> files that have been 'require'd? Is there a way to list all classes 
> available -
> and is there a way to tell if a class is 'custom' versus included with
> the base Ruby installation?


warn $".join( "\n" )

Maybe replace 'warn' with a call to some logger.


James


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