From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-15T01:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: namespace conflicts


On May 14, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Michael Gorsuch wrote:

> Good morning, everyone.
>
> I'm curious as to how I can resolve some namespace conflicts.  I'm  
> writing a
> Rails app (although this problem should be agnostic), and wrote a  
> Payment
> model (which is a class for those that don't use Rails) for my app.
>
> I also have need to use the Payment gem from ruby forge, which uses
> 'Payment' as the name for the module.
>
> I obviously have a conflict here, but I'm wondering if anyone has any
> interesting ideas as to how I can solve it.
>
> As far as I see it, I'll need to rename one of the two objects.
>
> Thanks to everyone,
>
> Michael

Nest your app in it's own namespace?

module Gorsuch
   class Payment < ActiveRecord::Base
      ...
   end
end

Gorsuch::Payment.new #etc.